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...Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson and Lieut. General Somervell. They want a tough, all-out war against Japan with a minimum of reconversion. Last week theirs were the voices WPB had to hear as it prepared for the fearsome job of refitting the U.S. production machine for the knockout blow against Japan. That blow would not be delivered in one swift assault; it might be many long months before it was struck. Meanwhile, the U.S. would go on living in a war economy that would be eased only a little after Germany ran up the white flag...
...everything Monty demanded was in place, the last bit of the strategic jigsaw ready to fall into place. Monty could sound the call. In an order of the day he steamed up his Twenty-first Army Group: "We stand ready for the last round. . . . We will go for the knockout blow...
...loses a pan or parts (a technical sergeant, a second lieutenant, a platoon, a whole company), the replacement is promptly supplied-how promptly was revealed by the entries in a captured German officer's diary. Having battered a U.S. division to pieces, the Germans laid plans for a knockout in the morning. But by morning the astounded Germans discovered that they were faced again with a U.S. division fighting at full strength...
...House of Commons Winston Churchill brushed off a few crumbs of optimism. Previously he had said that the knockout of Germany "may" require a few months of 1945. Last week, back from his Moscow conference, he said: "I certainly cannot predict-still less guarantee-the end of the German war before the end of spring, or even before we reach early summer...
...fighting lines. The longer the blow is delayed, the longer Hitler will have to scrape up and train his ersatz divisions, to toughen his defenses in depth. On the other hand, a real breakthrough might tear the present front hopelessly open, might furnish the momentum for the knockout wallop in the west...