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...this time, the enemy was maneuvered out of position. He sent some 3,000 reinforcements south to counterattack near Colmar, thus let down his right guard. Jake Devers let go a stiff punch. On back trails through the Saverne Gap he sent Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc's* French armored division driving toward Strasbourg. The Germans, apparently expecting that any advance would be along the gap's one main road, again found themselves bypassed, surrounded in pockets. Leclerc's tanks brushed through a shell of resistance, reached Alsace's capital (where children cheered them in German...
...Paris homecoming began on August 25, when TIME's chief War Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker and LIFE's photographer Bob Capa jeeped through the Porte d'Orléans directly behind the armored car of General Jacques Leclerc. As soon as they had shaken loose from the cheering, flower-throwing crowd they looked up a longtime member of our Paris staff who had spent the last four years in German-occupied Paris. She told them that the French had sealed up our old offices on the Champs Elysées until the authorities could find out what damage...
...Jacques Leclerc is a nom de guerre. His real name is still a secret (to protect his family from the Nazis). Quick-tempered, a stickler for efficiency, the General has no patience with fumbling aides. Last week, on the road to Paris, his nerves jumped raggedly.. At a press conference he parried all questions with caustic comments...
...called Leclerc was born 42 years ago near Amiens. He graduated from Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. A major in 1940, he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped, riding a bicycle some 375 miles to the frontier...
From there Leclerc made his way to London and Africa, organized a French fighting force in the Cameroons. In long, quick strokes over the desert, he harassed the Italians in Fezzan. When Montgomery began his march toward Tripoli, Leclerc moved his force north from Fort Lamy, over 1,200 miles of desert and mountains in 39 days. From Tripoli, he advanced with Montgomery into Tunisia...