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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reserves to smash through a lightly held sector of the Belgian front. His panzers would entrap as many as 30 U.S. and British divisions, capture the strategic supply port of Antwerp, and perhaps end the war in the West with a negotiated peace. Hitler thought of it as another Dunkirk and code-named it "Wacht am Rhein [Watch on the Rhine]." Allied archives would later refer to "the Battle of the Ardennes." To men who were there when the offensive began 25 years ago this week, it was "the breakthrough" or "the Battle of the Bulge"-and a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Hitler's Last Great Gamble | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...World War II hero and one of the great figures of British military history; of a rupture of the aorta; in Slough, England. Though Montgomery was more popular, Alexander was judged by many to be the outstanding Allied general of the war. In 1940 he conducted the evacuation at Dunkirk; in 1942 he commanded the British Army's fighting retreat through the Burma jungles. Later that year, he masterminded the defeat of the Afrika Korps, and in 1944 he was appointed Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. As Ike put it: "Alexander was the ace card in the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

Died. General Sir Miles Dempsey, 72, British infantry officer who commanded the rear guard at Dunkirk, and led the British Second Army when it stormed Normandy's Gold, Juno and Sword beaches in 1944 but later passed up offers of higher command and resigned because "I have spent too much of my life smashing things up"; in Yattendon, England, precisely 25 years after Dday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 13, 1969 | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Should Hitler have aimed for Antwerp, as he did, in a grandiose dream of rolling back the Allies into the sea ("another Dunkirk")? Answer: probably not. A limited offensive, as his generals advised, would have lessened the risks, though they soberly gave themselves only a one-in-ten chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: His Father's Voice | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...special citation for insubordination and vulgarity beyond the control of any conductor is in order. This to the tympanist who, juggling his sticks with the dexterity of a weightlifter, produced a sustained, and equally unwanted cannonade, the likes of which has not been heard since the retreat from Dunkirk...

Author: By Lloyd E. Levy, | Title: The Bach Society | 4/29/1968 | See Source »

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