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Pressure in the Center. To many a doughfoot it must have seemed that the Germans were reacting slowly, that a rather big push was already on. Along a 40-mile front east of the Ardennes some six divisions of Lieut. General Courtney Hodges' First Army, some four of Lieut. General George Patton's Third Army, were clawing their way through the saw-toothed tank traps, over the concrete pillboxes of the Siegfried Line...
...Doughfoot in a Barrel. When Balck threatened to envelop U.S. Seventh Army units on the left, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch pulled back ten miles, leaving some Maginot Line positions to the Germans. They followed the withdrawal, pierced the new line, crossed the small Moder River. Then the Seventh counterattacked and the Germans backed up. They seemed to need reinforcements and they seemed not to be getting...
...General Jean Delattre de Tassigny, who last fortnight attacked the Colmar pocket on the south, last week began to squeeze it on both sides. With Tassigny's French First Army was a crack U.S. infantry division, which got bruised one day in a fight against Panther tanks. One doughfoot who hid in a rain barrel saw Alsatian villagers pointing out U.S.-held houses to the Germans. When he got back and told the story, Thunderbolts and artillery reduced the village to rubble. Later the Yanks retook...
...melancholy winter sky of Italy cleared briefly. Gratefully the Allies flung out their Air Force, sending 2,500 planes over German positions for the best day's work in three months. To the wet, cold, tired doughfoot slogging endlessly up Italian mountains and across Italian rivers, it was a welcome but temporary sight. The weather would soon close down again, return the infantrymen to the dreariest, most discouraging fighting in Europe...
...year in Alaska, carefully analyzed all the reports of what went wrong in Attu, then wrote his handbook. Some conclusions: Warriors' Habits. "For some reason it seems that mud and water and war always go together, so since the days of the Axe, stone, M I, the doughfoot has always had a rough time with his wet feet...