Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Armies (Dempsey's Second and Crerar's Canadian First) stayed under the command of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. The boss of the American Twelfth Army Group: lean, spectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who thus became responsible directly to Eisenhower for the operations of the First Army of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, the fleet-footed Third Army of Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...suddenly postponed until after noon-Don Nelson had a hurry-up summons to the White House. There, presumably, Franklin Roosevelt told Nelson of Wilson's resignation. But Nelson went straight from the White House to address his "harmony" meeting with glowing words for his good friend Charlie, who had done such a magnificent job. There never had been any real differences between the two of them, said Nelson. He trusted Charlie implicitly to keep things running while he was in China. He ended: "Charlie, I'd like you to say a few words." Up rose stocky Charles Wilson...
Next day, reluctantly, Cap Krug was out of Navy blues and into a grey-brown suit. He could expect a handful of resignations. The first: able Sidney J. Weinberg, who had been specifically drafted into WPB for the weird job of keeping the peace between Messrs. Nelson and Wilson...
Could Cap Krug expect to have full control at WPB ? No one knew. A reporter asked the President if Nelson would return to WPB after his China trip. The President dismissed it as an "iffy" question, too far in the future (see The Presidency...
...north and east were terrain and towns he knew as one of World War I's battalion commanders: the Somme, the Argonne, Sedan, Amiens, the Meuse. Those Allied objectives were reminders-if the German command needed any more -of how completely Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley had reversed their classic Schlieffen plan of enveloping France.*Now the Eisenhower-Montgomery wheeling movement, anchored at the mouth of the Seine, was developing arcs that expanded toward Belgium and Germany...