Word: hamme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that history, whoever writes it, the roaring campaigns of George Smith Patton and his tanks across France and Germany must make an honorable chapter. Along that route, among Third Army dead at Hamm in Luxembourg, George Patton was laid to rest...
...Ninth Army's 83rd Division fought into Hamm, which has the biggest rail marshalling yards in Germany, and three days later cleared the city. Elsewhere even the fighting for villages was tough. The Germans launched small but savage counterattacks with tanks, fought off the U.S. attacks with dug-in tanks and self-propelled guns. In the Siegen area, on the south side of the pocket, they put in ten counterattacks...
Only intermittently did the weather hold back the Allied big bombers, which used their hidden-target instruments when necessary to unload through overcast. With Duisburg and Cologne temporarily shattered, the heavies turned their attention to Hamm, Bonn, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Mannheim and other supply ganglia serving the West Wall. It was an effort to wall off the Rhineland from the interior-just as, in the Battle of France, Allied air power had isolated the fighting area between the Loire and the Seine...
...usual 20-minute journey to Hamm took more than an hour...
...reduction seemed to be under way in OPA's oversize legal staff, now about 2,700 strong. First casualty was John E. Hamm, Leon Henderson's cousin, who resigned as Senior Deputy Administrator. Next, C. David Ginsburg, once Leon Henderson's right hand, resigned as General Counsel. Deferred from military service at Leon Henderson's request, Lawyer Ginsburg, 30, sought an Army commission, as Congressmen fumed. Prentiss Brown moved shrewdly: he had already ordered no draft deferments for anyone on OPA's payroll...