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This week, still on the advance, they had smashed into Avranches (see map) cutting the German's best road across lower Normandy. They had already ripped through to the sea at Brehal and at Granville in a series of well-executed sweeps that enveloped pockets of stunned German tankmen and infantrymen. They had collected more than 10,000 prisoners; more thousands were streaming in from some of the German's best divisions. There was a good chance the reeling Germans could not stop short of the hills below Avranches (their retreat was so speedy in the last...
Major William Mallory, onetime Yale ('24) footballer, studied the huge map of northern Italy in his headquarters, noted that the wide Po River had remarkably few bridges. All the German supplies for the fighting front, all the raw materials for war industries in the Po Valley, had to funnel through some two dozen rail and road spans. Major Mallory drew his plan, presented it to his commander, Major General John K. Cannon of the Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force...
...Pearl Harbor office of Admiral Nimitz hangs a great wall map of the Pacific Ocean. Last week a new name was pasted on the map: the Philippine Sea. That new name meant that a new management had moved into the area-1,500,000 square miles, bounded by the southern islands of Japan, the Ryukyus, the Philippines, Carolines, Marianas and Bonins...
Hitler had been forewarned at Berchtesgaden by the Gestapo, had sent his double, Heinrich Bergner, into the big map room, where a dozen generals and their adjutants were waiting for afternoon conference. Von Stauffenberg mistook Bergner for Hitler. In the same motion with which he gave the Nazi salute, he tossed a hand grenade. There were flames and an explosion. Bergner fell dead...
...Puerto Rico's Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, once (1938) chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. Tugwell specializes in "the kind of watercolor planning which consists of splashing green paint at a map and labeling the resulting blobs as 'open areas,' 'green belts,' 'breathing spaces...