Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could see the Germans' thinning reserves, stretched drumhead-tight west of the Rhine. The Germans had just about all their chips on the table. But the Allies still had cash in their pockets; their impressive reserves had not yet been committed. North of Bradley, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery had thrown in only part of his armies. To the south, Lieut. General Jacob Devers, who had reserves, too, had slashed into the Germans' soft left flank in the Vosges (see below). In his own area, Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group pounded grimly and powerfully...
...holding the forts, the passes and the river lines, and apparently with few mobile reserves. They made only token defenses of Metz, Strasbourg and Belfort. No doubt Bradley had scheduled the start of Patton's push a week ahead of the Cologne offensive on the chance that Field Marshal von Rundstedt might shove reserves into the southern breaches. Rundstedt did not yield to this incitement. Instead he crowded more men, fire power and armor into the sector east of Aachen...
...long Russian line across Hungary swung inexorably north. Budapest held with German-made firmness; Red Army units which advanced to its outskirts three weeks before had gone no farther. But eastward Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's divisions snapped railroads and highways one by one, captured town after town, reached to within 23 miles of the Slovakian border. Budapest was being flanked...
...more than ever, the Road was a military "must." The Japanese, with unbroken communications from Manchuria to the South China Sea, were bulging westward. With the capture of Ishan they ousted the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force from another airstrip. Under personal command of scrawny, high-powered Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, the Japanese now headed for the Chinese end of the Burma-Chungking Road. Only 180 miles away, they stood a good chance of cutting the Road below Chungking before the Chinese at the other end opened...
Back at his Paris desk the French leader found a message, just arrived from Moscow: Marshal Stalin could not at present accept General de Gaulle's invitation to visit Paris. But would General de Gaulle care to call on Marshal Stalin at the Kremlin...