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...western Netherlands by an Allied push to the Zuider Zee. More probably, it meant that they needed the Dutch garrison to help man the Rhine. As against 70 or 80 divisions in December, Rundstedt was now estimated to have no more than 40 or 50 in the west. Since Dday, the Germans had lost over a million prisoners, plus a probable 500,000 in dead and permanently disabled, in the west...
...Africa campaign commanding the XIII Corps (he considers 13 his lucky number), took it into Sicily and Italy, fought several highly successful and highly unpublicized actions on the Biferno and Sangro Rivers. Then he was called back to lead Britain's invasion army. Three weeks after Dday, he was knighted...
Dempsey's acquaintances, of whom he has many, and his cronies, of whom he has none, agree that he is a splendid general but not a colorful man. Drowned in Monty's color, he was hardly known at all to the British public before Dday, and not much better known now. But the British, and the rest of the world, may hear a great deal about him in the near future...
...month before Dday, flying over 1,000 sorties a day, Allied air forces began to prepare the invasion ground-smashing enemy airfields, railroad yards, transport, coastal gun positions, communications and bridges from The Netherlands to the Pyrenees...
...hours after the original landings on Dday, we had a toe hold and it looked like a good one. But all hell broke loose before noon. From the north and from the south the hidden Japs poured artillery and 6-in. mortars into the marines on the beachhead. Nearly all our tanks were clustered near the black-ash beaches like so many black beetles struggling to move on tar paper. A few other chuffing monsters waddled up the steep incline toward the airfield, spouting flames now and then into the .pillboxes which were blended into the sandy approaches...