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Columbia waxed great, not because of President Butler's single-mindedness but in spite of his versatility. A voracious appetite for responsibility was his shining virtue and his chief vice. While it nurtured Columbia, it distracted Butler into politics, lured him into a maze of inconsistencies that may have kept him from achieving his fondest ambition: the Presidency...
...yard battleline across southern Okinawa had not changed position in 13 days. Ahead lay a Japanese army 50,000 strong, entrenched on rows of spiny ridges, each one a maze of log bunkers, concrete pillboxes, caves and tunnels. Patiently the Tenth Army's Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. had waited until the Navy built up his supply dumps. Then he was ready...
Here was no Iwo Jima. On this island, 60 miles long and two to 20 miles wide, there was room to land and maneuver. Jap opposition on the beach was almost nonexistent. Quickly the troops moved inland through a maze of tiny one-and two-acre farms. They spread north and south, pushed eastward. Still resistance remained slight. Some men marched a mile without hearing a shot...
Lieut. General William Simpson's Ninth Army was so fresh and fit that it was almost going stale. Its front was jam-packed with men and supplies. Every day the Germans were strengthening the maze of defenses between the Roer and the Rhine. The Russians were waiting. Eisen hower could not wait any longer...
...stand on the little Erft River, which is less of an obstacle than the Roer, but which splits into several troublesome branches in front of Cologne (see map). He had shown how he could fight with substandard troops on river lines, in woods, and in his fearful maze of Rhineland fortifications-and what he had shown was very good. But there comes a point at which skill and tricks are swamped by power...