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...bare statistics were awesome. From the beginning of U.S. air operations in Europe through the end of this October, the heavy bombers of the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had dropped 638,880 tons of explosives on German targets; more than half of the total had gone to the Reich homeland. Bombers and fighters together had destroyed 15,210 German planes. And all this was entirely apart from the operations of the Ninth and Twelfth (Tactical) U.S. Air Forces, or of the R.A.F., which flexed its muscles this week with a smashing 3,088 ton assault on oil refineries near...
...troops lost bridgeheads across watercourses to withering German fire, had to fight again to get them back. They pushed doggedly ahead. This week the Allies stood on the left bank of the Maas and its estuary, the Hollandsch Diep, on a 50-mile front. Nearly all of the German Fifteenth Army had already crossed intact by way of the big rail and road bridges at Moerdijk, a bridge at Geertruidenberg, ferries at Willemstad. When the Poles reached Geertruidenberg, they found it abandoned...
Waggling its wings, a German Messerschmitt 109 skimmed in low and fast to the huge air base of the Fifteenth Air Force Headquarters in Italy. U.S. gunners held their fire. Reason: a U.S. flag was painted crudely on the fuselage, white stars daubed on the wings. The plane landed, braked to a stop. Tall, handsome Captain Carl Cantacuzino of the Rumanian Air Force climbed out. To the crowd of airmen who ran up, he said: "I have somebody here you'll be glad...
...whether U.S. armor might strike for Reims. At the turn of the week, the Nazis reported U.S. army in Reims and U.S. Flyers reported the Nazia in full, disorganized flight to the Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question was whether the Germans could make a stand short of the Maginot Line. It was doubtful...
Quagmire and Abattoir. "Withdrawal from France" was a grim phrase, for official German utterance. The prospects of actually withdrawing the remaining German forces were grimmer still. France was now a quagmire as well as an abattoir. The German Seventh Army, foolishly reinforced by elements of the Fifteenth which had been guarding the robot-bomb coast, was pinned against the Seine, under a withering blast of Allied fire from the ground...