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...yards; at another spot, 9th Infantry Division units ran into 24 German tanks, including three Mark VI Tigers. Nevertheless, the enemy seemed to be pulling his nondescript infantry back, leaving a shell of armor and self-propelled guns. Berlin claimed that Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow's new Fifteenth Army had been sent over the Remagen crossing, that Fifteenth and First Army men in the bridgehead totaled 100,000. Apparently Berlin was not hopeful of throwing any such force as that back into the Rhine. Even the collapse of the Remagen bridge (see below) was only a minor inconvenience...
General Eisenhower, on the other hand, had never been stronger. Last week he announced his long-rumored new army, the U.S. Fifteenth. Two facts were disclosed about the Fifteenth: 1) that it was attached to Bradley's Twelfth Army Group; 2) that it was commanded by Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, brilliant former commander of the V Corps. The Germans were left to guess the rest. They might plausibly guess that the Fifteenth would be poured over the Remagen crossing, as soon as the defenders were pushed beyond artillery range...
Future historians will fill yards of bookshelves dividing the credit for the invasion success among the Allied generals, admirals and statesmen, and the discredit among Hitler, Rommel and Rundstedt. It is generally agreed already that the Germans held back their reserves too long, and their Fifteenth Army north of the Seine until too late, because Eisenhower cleverly kept them worried about a second invasion in Pas de Calais. Bradley was the line smasher as well as quarterback for the Allied operations (as he is now). He did not fumble, and he invariably capitalized on the errors of the enemy...
Alexander filled the post left vacant by burly General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, who will go to Washington as head of the British Joint Staff Mission (succeeding the late great Field Marshal Sir John Dill). Into Alexander's place, as commander of the Fifteenth Army Group in Italy, stepped lanky Mark Clark...
...October, British-based heavies had a record month of 100,000 tons of bombs dropped, almost all of it on Germany proper. The U.S. Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy unloaded 13,100 more tons on northern Italy, Austria, Bavaria, Czechoslovakia. The Luftwaffe rode out the storm on the ground, and Allied losses were light, less than...