Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goebbels' legman Helmut Sündermann echoed Winston Churchill, with a German accent. He cried: "The German nation is to be wiped off the map. German men are to be enslaved and deported to all corners of the earth. . . . When enemy divisions reach German soil, they must be attacked from every house, every village, every field, every hill. We must not leave a single blade of German grass which might feed the invaders...
...Soon I realize that they are half asleep, hunched on the boxes that serve for chairs. A German shell bursts in the air just over the house and they tiredly dive for the floor. The lieutenant smiles but does not speak when he resumes his seat before a wall map...
Over his shoulder, I can see on the map that we have very little between ourselves and the Germans. But that is not the thing which fills this room with a kind of spiritual blackness. What I sense in this room is weariness-the final weariness which men can endure while they still move, talk when they have to, or even fight again if they must. That weariness is in their faces, their bodies, their khaki clothes clotted with dust and dried sweat. This troop has been constantly rolling and fighting for eight days and nights...
...lieutenant said that he'd got all of his men back, and the captain nodded. My presence was explained. The captain just looked at me, and went over to the map...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. rapped the map with his leather riding crop, which sheathes a glistening poniard. He pointed with it to the next objective, a town 50 miles away. Said he to a Third Army corps commander: "Get there-any way you want to." As he had before, he was demanding the impossible of his supply officers. As before, in this miraculous month, they would get the impossible done...