Word: clevely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launched in the north, east of Eindhoven, on a short stretch of front between the Rhine and the Maas (Meuse-see map). For the first time since December, SHAEF spokes men used the word "offensive" in reference to Allied action. Immediate objectives were the fortified road centers of Cleve and Goch. Field Marshal Montgomery called for a typical "Monty preparation"-an eleven-hour artillery barrage, plus an attack by 2,200 planes, including 700 heavy bombers. A German prisoner said later that six of twelve guns in his own outfit had been knocked out in the air attack...
...just liberators." In flooded areas, the Canucks bustled from one "island" to another in amphibious vehicles. They braved the thick Reichswald, gained seven miles in three days, tore the guts out of the German 84th Division. At week's end they were fighting from house to house in Cleve, against German paratroops rushed north from Alsace. Cleve fell...
...Ninth Army has remained under the overall control of Field Marshal Montgomery's Twenty-first Army Group, in order that "Monty" might coordinate the northern offensives. The Canadian thrust which reached Cleve threatened to roll up Rundstedt's right flank by a drive down the west bank of the Rhine. That threat may be a diversionary help to Simpson. Allied air power is already helping him, and the grueling strain imposed by the Russians is helping most of all. If Eisenhower and Montgomery have made his army their chosen instrument, he may be the man who will finally...
Born. To Arthur Lake, 35, "Dagwood" of the "Blondie" cinema series, and Patricia Van Cleve Lake, 25; a second child, first daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Marion Rose. Weight...
...patch of hell." Gradually the Allied foothold across the Lek was strengthened. But still there was no letup of the German pressure. For this was also a battle of desperation for the Germans. U.S. columns advancing eastward from the rescue corridor drove into German territory a few miles from Cleve, the anchor of the Siegfried Line. This was not merely a battle to rescue the British airborne. It was a battle to turn the whole right flank of the German army...