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...offensive west from Kharkov last spring. Without artillery support, the cavalry could not withstand strong German counterattacks. Last week it abandoned Zhitomir, in the first major reverse in the Red Army's great, 18-week offensive. The retreat was has tened by fierce German blows at the Russian flank east of Zhitomir...
...wish you could see the Tommies and the Yanks fighting side by side in the hills here, each unit depending on the other for the upholding of a flank. The last time I was up at the front, four days ago, I saw a little pile of dead by the roadside, six Tommies, four Yanks. There was an argument as to whether they should be buried together or apart. A U.S. colonel settled the thing with 'Hell, bury them together. They fought together and they died from the same shell...
Probabilities. Logically, Truk must be captured. This would mean a gradual pruning-cutting off the Marshalls and Gilberts, cutting off Rabaul, then striking at Truk. On the other flank the same kind of process will probably be in order-a pruning not only in Burma but down the line as well, at the Andamans, perhaps, or Malaya or the Dutch islands. The Japanese arteries will be meaningless when they have no flesh into which to feed military lifeblood...
...also remember that a strong carrier force raided Wake and at any time might support an invasion blow at Truk's eastern flank-at the Marshalls and Gilberts, for instance. He must have realized that last week's Solomons action might be partly a diversion. He probably had means of hearing excerpts from a speech Admiral Nimitz made in Honolulu last week: "Before we can bring our fast-growing air and naval superiority to bear on the Japanese homeland, we must secure adequate bases close enough to that homeland. This will be done...
...kept on the move, ate frugally, drank little.* His officers, up at 4:30, drank a cup of tea before daylight, breakfasted in their overcoats on a table before Wellington's tent, and then set out on the day's march, the Duke riding on the dusty flank...