Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German command was plainly shaken. It was not proper that Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Army had been able to penetrate six deep belts of defense between the starting point of his offensive and Gleiwitz. It was not in the books that his Russians could so quickly chew up the ring of gun points, trenches, minefields, tank traps that circled Gleiwitz and the other heavily populated cities...
...that the Nazis thought it worth while to attack in this area at this stage of the war. One ingenious explanation, offered by some U.S. Seventh Army officers, was that Nazi General Hermann Balck had hastily committed his best units to action in order to keep the German High Command from taking them away. Balck had two or more Panzer or Panzer grenadier divisions, one of mountain troops from Norway, one of SS infantry, one of paratroops-a parcel of the Wehrmacht's best...
What to do with Germany is more difficult. Of course not all G.I.s ponder the problem, but it furnishes food for many an interminable bull session in lonely artillery batteries, company command posts and airfield barracks. G.I.s agree that it is impossible to exterminate this foe. The next best thing, many of them believe, is to carve Germany into numerous smaller states and then keep permanent guard to make sure that the Germanic states do not reunite into a powerful Reich. Perhaps this is not farseeing, but the G.I.s have not yet heard a better plan...
From China and from the Marianas, B-29s were keeping Formosa, Kyushu and Honshu under attack. Their performance was getting better. The 21st Bomber Command (Saipan and Guam) struck at a tempting target, the Kawasaki aircraft factory near Kobe, where the Japs made the new twin-engined fighter known as "Nick." Returning pilots, with photographs to back them, reported 315 hits in the target area, and the plant out of operation for months...
...hour was early, 2 o'clock in the morning, when orders were given to General Scobie to take over command of Athens and restore and maintain order by whatever measures were necessary. If that were wrong, I take full responsibility with my colleagues who are most desirous of sharing it with...