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...section of occupied Berlin, death-ridden capital of a dead empire, last week. Along a road marked off by the Red Army, a column of 4,000 U.S. vehicles rolled toward the shattered city. As the Americans crossed into suburban Zehlendorf, a dismal rain fell. Cried some gaunt Berliners : "Gott sei dank - Thank God!" Others stood silent and sullen...
...Strafer") Gott, had been killed in an air crash on his way to take command of the Eighth Army...
...that Bernard Law Montgomery had walked into Cairo's crowded Shepheard's Hotel. Few people noticed the man who had come from England to boss the demoralized Eighth Army. He had been second choice for the job, after the death of Lieut. General William Henry Ewart ("Strafer") Gott. Outside military circles, the scrawny, gimlet-eyed little man was unknown...
...nickname was "Strafer." Built like a horse, at 44 one of the youngest officers to hold his rank, he commanded the British 13th Corps in Libya. His full name and title: Lieut. General William Henry Ewart Gott, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. World War I veterans who remembered the Germans' Gott strafe England gave him the nickname...
...knows it, the desert can be a fortress; to him who does not, it can be a deathtrap." From London last week came a report that enemy planes had attacked his plane, shot him down. In the skies over the desert the trap had closed on Strafer Gott...