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Their central thrust, with a force built around five battleships, would rush the narrow San Bernardino Strait and strike Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet, guarding the Leyte beach head, on its northern flank...
Last week Major General Franklin Sibert's X Corps, which had made the northern (right flank) landing on the eastern shore, pushed inland after capturing the capital city of Tacloban, where Philippines President Sergio Osmeña promptly set up his provisional capital. Then Sibert's troops fanned out along the north coast, and southward to join Hodge's XXIV Corps, which was moving north from Burauen after driving inland from their beachhead...
...Nazis took too long to tire, General Ivan Bagramyan's army group, poised on the banks of the Niemen on Chern-yakhovsky's right flank, could help things along by a breakthrough from the north. On Chernyakhovsky's left, Colonel General Georgi Zakharov was reported by the Germans to be attacking in the Masurian Lakes region with hundreds of tanks and planes, behind a "drumfire of artillery" (the usual German phrase indicating a breakthrough assault...
Another neat piece of Dewey's campaign strategy also became apparent. In the August doldrums, while he was silent, other Republicans had begun moving up the artillery on a weak Democratic flank-the left-wing support for Franklin Roosevelt from P.A.C. and the Communists. Tom Dewey marched ahead without so much as glancing at this temptingly vulnerable spot-until Franklin Roosevelt, needled by the jabs from Republican underlings, rose to disclaim his Communist support. Then, at Charleston, W.Va., Dewey let go hard against the President's "soft" disavowal. Perhaps Franklin Roosevelt doesn't like the Communists, said...
...achieved, the First will not yet have an other Saint-LÔ. The West Wall break will have to be vastly widened before tanks can be rocketed through to burst out toward Cologne and Dusseldorf, Ike Eisenhower may have to achieve other breaks or fight around the northern flank on to the north German plain before he can break his tanks loose. For the time. Hodges' First was in the best position to bring about that situation. But only history would tell whether the First's drive in the Aachen sector would be written down as a diversion...