Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of the world Harry Zinder datelined his cable "On the Road to Berlin" and told of a day's advance with General Dempsey's Second Army north of the Ruhr. "I was out in the open in a jeep in the middle of a convoy of specially armored tanks. Snipers were still present in all the villages we passed through, since nothing had been cleared. Through the night the Germans shelled our column with their 88s, and were registering as well with heavy caliber guns. But regardless of the guns the column pushed through...
...Monty" and Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey (TIME, March 19) had wrought a precisely timed, superbly managed amphibious operation, but when it came the only surprise about it was the lack of immediate German resistance. Monty had taken his own good time to put the last bit of detail into its tidy place. The 51st Highland Division, which always leads a major Montgomery assault, the gallant 15th Scottish Division, the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armored Division, all had rehearsed their roles...
What's Cooking? It seemed clear that Field Marshal Montgomery was getting ready for multiple crossings in the north, and that the attacks would be spearheaded by Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey's British Second Army. In the House of Commons, War Secretary Sir James Grigg stated flatly that "our forces" were preparing to cross ''in force...
...Dempsey is the kind of general who, when he wants to see his corps commanders, goes to their headquarters. And if they happen to be busy with their own division commanders, he waits until they get through. Although he despises traffic jams, he never allows his driver to sound his siren. He likes cricket, maps, horses, detective stories, dislikes paper work and people who chew gum, has no interest in music or art. A bachelor, he lives with a brother in Sussex when he is in England...
...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...