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Nothing in the immediate prospect before Omar Bradley directly suggested the end of a war, or even the end of a campaign. But in the eye of his keen, analytical mind General Bradley could see beyond the belching, jerking guns, the wallowing tanks, the struggling infantrymen. The armies on the south flank of the Allied line were moving faster than he, because they were exploiting a weakness which already existed. Bradley was busy creating a weakness-one which may be fatal to Germany...
Belfort, a stronghold for more than 700 years,* and a formidable assault objective, was thinly held. Histrionic Delattre de Tassigny (his officers call him Le Général de Théâtre) attempted no frontal siege. He sent his infantrymen over the snow-sogged hills to envelop the city on three sides, finally reduced several of its forts by artillery...
...schedule they might be, but MacArthur's troops were still on the track, still rolling in the right direction. Last week on Leyte fresh infantrymen of the 32nd ("Red Arrow") Division (see ARMY & NAVY) cracked the Japanese strong point at Limon, took the town and neatly pulled the plug at the top of the north-south road along which last-ditch Japanese defenders are strung all the way down to Ormoc...
...Present. But that was in the future. For the moment the battle was still joined on the Hungarian plain, its fields of yellow pumpkins punctuated by small lakes and farm buildings. Persistent rain had made the kind of mud that even stumped bullocks. Infantrymen were all but swimming in the thick goo and tanks were helplessly stalled. Nevertheless the Russians slogged on past the Tisa, past the abandoned German tanks and trucks littering the plains, and on toward the north...
...favor. Already emplaced in whole provinces, enormous masses of movable concrete bunkers of eight to 15 tons, called "scorpions," formed "tank landscapes." Before them were six or eight zones of mine blockades including contact mines of glass, controlled mines fired by wire or radio. Enthroned in this system sat infantrymen with antitank rockets and guns...