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Down the Carpathian flank of the funnel poured General Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army. A massive artillery barrage cracked the concrete firing points built by the Germans around Jassy, Rumania's second city (pop. 100,000) and ancient capital, famed for monasteries and native daughter Magda Lupescu...
...Carpathians. The Anglo-U.S. armies could not do this on the narrow Italian peninsula. But they could do as well by an over-water leap to France, bypassing the Gothic Line and the Alps. In effect, this created a two-sectored southern front with the left flank free for unlimited movement...
Creaking Hinge. But apparently all this was only flank protection. The main effort had been put into a wide arc which swung around the Seventh Army's unhinged left flank. The German Army facing north and west found itself being menaced from the south and east. Its route of escape was a narrow corridor to the east...
...mopping-up to wait, the Americans had already taken Le Mans and were swinging north against the Seventh Army's rear when Kluge's reinforcements began to arrive over his battered roads. Underrating the American threat, Kluge threw his reinforcements into an attempt to push his dangling flank to the sea near Avranches. This only drove his troops deeper into Eisenhower's trap...
...Marine Division, under Major General Allen Hal Turnage, formed the left flank of the drive north, and the Army's 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division, under Major General Andrew D. Bruce, formed the right. The ist Provisional Marine Brigade had mopped up Orote, whose airstrip...