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Biak & Beyond. At Biak, Eichelberger was sent to rescue another bogged-down force, again superseded a classmate (Major General Horace H. Fuller), straightened out the situation with less trouble than he had had at Buna. It was a clever job of tactics-no frontal assaults, much fast-stepping, cleverly conceived flank movement, a swift securing of the three vital Biak airfields. For such imaginative tactics MacArthur made Eichelberger commander of the new Eighth Army...
...shallower and slower there-and last week it was falling. If the Germans can pull themselves together, the Allied crossings are likely to be bloodily contested, especially if made in a frontal attack on the Ruhr. The Germans seemed to fear landings north and south of the Ruhr, aimed at quick envelopment of that vital industrial basin. Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment...
Along with this frontal attack came a potshot from within McNaughton's own Liberal Party, and the Cabinet itself. In Ottawa's Press Gallery, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald plunked himself down behind the green-topped poker table, answered a question thrown out by Ken Cragg of the Tory-minded Toronto Globe & Mail: "What about this business of ships being sunk...
...inside the German capital in a matter of days. . . . It is a temptation that should be resisted. . . . We should ask ourselves whether it is a very attractive military proposition for an army to thrust forward in a narrow spear across a wide, defended river line and make a frontal attack on one of the greatest single built-up areas in the world. Unless the Germans are really on their last legs, it would seem to be asking for trouble to do that, and I don't believe the Russians will...
...question was: are the Germans on their last legs? If Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army suddenly threw caution to the winds and dashed for Berlin, the answer would be yes. Best guess: he would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans...