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...Weyland's Nineteenth Tactical Air Command. Patton had told Weyland his right flank would be exposed and he wanted "Opie" Weyland to cover it. Weyland did. For three weeks his aircraft kept some 30,000 Germans pinned down south of the Loire, while Patton drove on. The hopeless German commander finally surrendered. When he gave up his sword to a Ninth Army commander, says the report, he "asked, to maintain German honor, that General Weyland's aircraft, which had conquered his units, should fly over his men before they laid down their arms...
...Japs said that Japanese civilians would fight to the last if their homeland was invaded. Twenty-seven said that they would fight until it looked hopeless. Seventy-nine thought that they would not fight...
...combined military plans will be made known only as we execute them. . . . Nazi Germany is doomed. The German people will only make the cost of their defeat heavier to themselves by attempting to continue a hopeless resistance...
...demolition engineers pressed the buttons. Electrically connected charges went off in series. The main business district-eight blocks of the Calle Escolta-began to burn. There was no water pressure to fight the fires. Many Filipinos looked on apathetically, made no move to help U.S. soldiers tackling the hopeless...
That idea also fitted the Field Marshal's belief that Hitler's stubbornness and stupidity had doomed Paulus' mighty Sixth Army to a hopeless stand at Stalingrad. He was also outraged by Hitler's hanging of his fellow Field Marshal, Erwin von Witzleben. On Aug. 14, 1944, Friedrich von Paulus addressed an open letter to the German Army and people: "For Germany the war is lost. . . because of the political and military leadership 'of Adolf Hitler. . . . Germany must get rid of Adolf Hitler and establish a new state leadership which will bring...