Word: kluge
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...Paris. When Paris all but liberated itself, the question was whether U.S. armor might strike for Reims. At the turn of the week, the Nazis reported U.S. army in Reims and U.S. Flyers reported the Nazia in full, disorganized flight to the Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question was whether the Germans could make a stand short of the Maginot Line. It was doubtful...
Then the Allies in the north began to move. Brisk, wiry Lieut. General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar's Canadian First Army moved behind a 1 ,000-plane breakout bombing, fought fiercely to set up bridgeheads over the Orne, battled a German bulge to the west in which Kluge vainly spent some of his reserves...
Farther to the west Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's heavy force of Britons inched forward. Kluge's right began to give at the great hinge below Caen just as his left had been unseated two weeks before by the Americans...
Plane v. Bicycle. Kluge was in a pretty fix. His supply lines had been bomb-ravaged (in three days more than 600 locomotives, nearly 7,000 freight cars had been destroyed). Reinforcements were delayed (one unit bicycled nine days to reach the front...
...pushed between the Canadians striking south toward Falaise and the Americans striking north 12 miles below, the Seventh Army finally began to pull back. By this time Kluge was bringing part of the Fifteenth Army down to hold the line of the Seine but it was a question whether the Seventh Army could reach the Seine. The tattered Seventh might wriggle out of its corridor but the roads all the way back to the Seine were being strafed, and the bridges across it had been bombed out. In a coffin-shaped area roughly outlined by the Seine, Falaise, Argentan...