Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smell of doom lay heavy on the German air. Almost every German could smell it. The incredible Nazi failure at the Remagen bridge last week sluiced U.S. troops over the Rhine, and Marshal Zhukov's men were pouring over the Oder east of Berlin [see below']. Now, at last, the battle was being joined in the final arena...
...slowness and weakness of the first Nazi counterattacks at Remagen probably reflected a shortage of transport and fuel -and certainly they reflected the massive Allied air campaign against the German rail net which last week roared into its fourth week without a single day's interruption. Field Marshal von Rundstedt must have been thrown badly off balance. He had no doubt counted on plenty of time to regroup his forces, while Eisenhower prepared for the "naval operation" of crossing a bridgeless Rhine...
...Reich from "east, west, north and south." Last week in the U.S., an editorial in the Army and Navy Journal said that "the details and the preparations for execution [of an amphibious invasion of Germany] have been worked out," and speculated that the operation might be commanded by Field Marshal Montgomery, with Monty's armies in the west passing to the command of Lieut. General Omar Bradley...
...Italy Field Marshal Albert Kesselring could smell spring in the air. For the Field Marshal, spring and better weather might mean an all-out assault upon his lines. Already, at some points, the Allies were attacking. Using tactics old when General James Wolfe scaled Quebec's heights in 1759, Major General George P. Hayes's roth Mountain Division was jolting the German loose from the Apennine positions upon which he had based the center of his line. South of Bologna expert climbers set ropes on sheer cliff faces. Up those ropes swarmed the troops to catch the Nazis...
Patient, blunt-featured Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had waited. Now his northern flank was anchored on the sea, his southern flank secure. The time was at hand to resume the westward march-to Berlin, the north German plains, an eventual linking with Russia's allies...