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...Thrusts that pierced to the Loire, a natural flank barrier for the coming drive into central France...
Already the Americans had anchored the Allied flank on the Loire near Nantes. To the east was open, rolling country, interlaced with direct roads to Angers, Le Mans, Tours, Alengon, Paris. To the north the Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...
...east, 140 miles away, shaven-headed Lieut. General Wladyslaw Anders' durable Poles were still in the running on the Adriatic flank. In three weeks they had advanced 30 miles up the coast. Last week they snatched Ancona from two German divisions. Ancona's port-handy for Yugoslavia-was stoppered, like Leghorn, with wrecked ships. Among them: the Ida, 498-ton pride of passionate yachtsman ex-King Vittorio Emanuele...
...View Is Long. Aside from their natural desire to "cleanse" the last Russian soil of the enemy, their White Russia drive seemed calculated to bring that front into line with the more advanced southern sector, which would then have its right flank secured for a sweep across south Poland to Germany. Last week's push might also be the start of a flank envelopment which might reach for Koenigsberg and cut off all the Nazi hordes to the north...
North of these ports was the Arno River and the German "Gothic" line, largely backed by the Appenines. The weak point was Rimini, in flat land on the Adriatic. If the Allies broke through at Rimini, they could fan out into the Emilian plain, flank the entire line. That would end the Germans in Italy...