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TIME'S V-Mail Edition started at Munda in the Solomon Islands just a week or so after the Americans landed there in their first move northward from Guadalcanal - and most of the people here at TIME still think of it as the "Munda Edition," forgetting that there are now many other places in both oceans where similar editions are printed...
This infantry had already prepared for an attack and was moving northward. Their advance soon carried them against the whole length of the German columns which, thus caught on both flanks, were squeezed between the armor and infantry and raked by a murderous cross fire. Soon every highway, road and country lane in the area was a mass of burning, wrecked vehicles. There seldom has been such a quick mass slaughter as this. The battle of the Falaise gap was several days in the developing, but the slaughter, decimation and dispersion of 20,000 to 30,000 Germans...
This week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch was still driving northward from the Riviera toward a junction with the northern armies of General Eisenhower. So badly disorganized was the opposition that much of the time it did not know where its own units were. To avoid helping the enemy, Allied commanders let their communiques lag days behind developments in the field...
Eisenhower had seen the larger opportunity: to destroy the entire enemy force in western France. He allowed the pocket to remain unclosed, sent more American tanks looping eastward, then northward again. The enemy was being squeezed into retreat; his reinforcements were meeting his routed troops. In confused retreat the enemy could be cut to pieces in the larger trap, as Lee's armies had been lacerated in their successive retreats to Petersburg, Richmond, finally Appomattox...
This advance, by light, fast units, reached northward without running into any substantial trouble. Behind them the main Allied force turned to fan westward toward the Rhone valley, where the supply lines were better. In the south it seized Aries, Tarascon, and Avignon on the lower Rhone and crossed the river. Farther north it moved toward German garrisons at Montelimar, Valence and Lyons. By then the German escape route was a hopeless grid of Allied regulars and French irregulars...