Word: cleanups
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...single hill four times; after four weeks' bitter fighting it had managed to gain 1,000 yards. Thirty-third Division troops fought artillery duels with Japs snugly hidden in caves on mountain slopes. Bit by bit both divisions worked closer to their objectives. On Mindanao the slow cleanup of Zamboanga peninsula continued. Davao, the excellent port and key area of the second largest island, was heavily bombed by the Thirteenth Air Force...
...west there was no longer a major defense line. In the east two Russian armies were advancing into Austria; two more were poised along the Oder. Somewhere soon the fronts of the east and west would merge. After that might come a furious, chaotic period of cleanup-in Norway, along the Baltic, amid the mountains of southern Germany and northern Italy. But the obscene grandeur that had been Nazi Germany would be dead and finished...
...more men and guns opposite Patton's outfits. Now there were fewer German men and guns. One reason: Patton's Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army had rung up one of the big victories of the war in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, had removed more than 150,000 Germans who might now be blocking Patton's path...
...dazzling record. It cut off the Brittany peninsula, plunged through the Loire valley with only air protection on its flanks. In the Battle of the Bulge it raced to the rescue of Bastogne, went on to help carve up the German advance. In the Saar-Palatinate cleanup it sliced through in parallel combat columns, scored one of the big victories of the west...
...less harried German command would have known better. In less than a fortnight Patton's Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army had cut to ribbons two good German armies in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, and had taken 100,000 prisoners the Wehrmacht could not afford to lose. Now Patton posed an even more serious threat to the weakening foe. He was in position to strike into the Main River valley, to try to split northern and southern Germany, thus perhaps prevent the expected Nazi move to hole up in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps...