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...occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive of Sept. 12-15, broke the Hindenburg Line in the stubborn Blanc Mont sector, was in the forefront of the battle in the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The division captured 12,026 prisoners altogether (about one-fourth of all captures by U.S. forces), suffered 24,429 casualties, won 2,000 Croix de Guerres...
During the Prussian parliamentary crisis in the summer of 1932, Rundstedt took charge of Berlin on Hindenburg's order to see that order was kept. His reward was command of Army Group I, with headquarters in Berlin. He was still in command in 1935 when the hollow-cheeked, ascetic Leeb took over Group II (based on Kassel) and the chill-eyed, death-glorifying Bock became commander of Group III (Dresden...
...same red blood that coursed the veins of the men who beat the flower of the German Army at Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, and broke the Hindenburg Line, flows swiftly, too, through the veins of the heroes of the glorious victories of the Coral Sea and Midway...
Marshal Petain retains the innocuous title and role of Chief of State. Doubtless Pierre Laval would have no objection to the aged bulk of the Marshal walking, as Field Marshal von Hindenburg once walked, beside Adolf Hitler on the day of triumph...
...Captain Rosendahl and his followers will not be content with blimps. They are after giant 10,000,000-cubic-feet dirigibles (half again as large as the Hindenburg], airships that will cruise at 85 knots, serve as the battleships and plane carriers...