Word: courtneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army trod a route rich in U.S. battle memories 26 years after another historic offensive - through Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Soissons, Reims. His tanks were in Sedan on the 74th anniversary of Napoleon III's capture and surrender there. They were well into Belgium before many of his tankmen knew...
West of Paris other elements of Patton's Third and of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army streaked across enlarged bridgeheads over the Seine. Their clear objective: a sweep northward to cut the retreat Allied pilots reported the Germans were making from their robomb coast. A parallel column, 15 miles to the east of Paris, was at the Marne near Lagny...
...Paris censors told newsmen they might announce that Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' U.S. First Army was credited with the capture of Paris (a claim that might be disputed by the F.F.I., and by Patton's Third Army, which had all but encircled France's capital). General Hodges insisted that the official letter turning Paris back to the French should be signed by one of his corps commanders, said that that corps deserved the glory and historical significance...
...Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, U.S. First Army Commander; Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, British Second Army Commander; General Montgomery; Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Twelfth Army Group Commander; Lieut. General H. D. G. Crerar, Canadian First Army Commander...
...succeed Bradley as boss of the First, the War Department pushed up 57-year-old Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges, who fought under Pershing in Mexico, fought in France in World...