Word: courtneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Around the Ruhr. The Ruhr encirclement-major prize in a week of blue ribbon advances-was a product of two armies. Lieut. General William H. Simpson's U.S. Ninth (under the tactical direction of Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery) threw one arm around the top. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army (under General Omar N. Bradley's Twelfth Army Group) turned north, tore through the last German defenses to wrap the other arm. The Ninth and the First shook hands at a street corner in the little town of Lippstadt on Easter Sunday. A First...
...Patton was playing his favorite role. He was the swift, slashing halfback of Coach Eisenhower's team. His quarterback, General Omar N. Bradley, had set up a climax play and had called Patton's signal. Halfback Patton had had superb blocking from Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army. Now the star open-field runner was ripping into the secondary defense...
...Third Army was on the loose (see below). Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army had slashed a quick opening, 'after its crossings downriver from Duisburg, and cut a bypassing path north of the Ruhr Valley's complex of industrial cities. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army had begun to burst the seams of its beefed-up bridgehead along a 35-mile front. Front reporters flashed the magic word: breakthrough...
Horse v. Engine. The Third was also within a dozen miles of joining up with the right wing of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First, whose main forces had broken out in a swift armored drive aimed at the central German plain...
Advancing in the Remagen bridgehead, Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army men brought the highway under artillery fire, then inched forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...