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...this week the northern flank appeared to have been stabilized, at least temporarily. Heavy battles raged for the wedges the Americans had been able to hold in the Monschau-Malmédy-Stavelot area and to the west of Saint-Vith. But they were perilous triangular salients. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army had apparently stopped the spearhead closest to Liège, focal point of U.S. supplies...
...Nijmegen-Arnhem salient, which the fearful Germans had flooded by opening the Waal dikes, General Crerar's Canadians, rested from the hellish battle of the Scheldt Estuary had wheeled into line again alongside the British. An all-out British-Canadian thrust across the Maas, or against the Arnhem flank, might put almost intolerable pressure on the German reserves, ease the way for a new U.S. push on Cologne...
...soon as Jerry realized that we had established a bridgehead, he opened fire from either flank with small arms and shelled us from the woods a couple of hundred yards ahead. The Scotties hurried the prisoners to the canal, and made them paddle themselves across while they prepared for the counterattack and the push forward...
...said: "We must have regard to our flank on the Continent. It is sometimes suggested that any advocacy of economic, political or strategic unity in western Europe is a threat to Russia. There should be no such thought in our minds, and if that thought exists in the minds of the Russians, it can easily be removed. There is nothing more challenging in our desire to organize the strength of the nations on our flanks than there is in Russia's organizing the nations on her flanks...
...still had cash in their pockets; their impressive reserves had not yet been committed. North of Bradley, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had thrown in only part of his armies. To the south, Lieut. General Jacob Devers, who had reserves, too, had slashed into the Germans' soft left flank in the Vosges (see below). In his own area, Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group pounded grimly and powerfully at the defenses of the Germans...