Word: omar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of last week the barometers told kindly, soft-spoken Omar Bradley (whose oldest friends call him "Omar the Tent-maker") that the weather would not be good. He was out a lot himself in the rain and snow, wiping the steam from his glasses, getting plenty of mud on the paratroop boots into which he tucks his G.I. pants. He knew what the cold, dirty, wet and often hungry doughboys were going through. He wanted to get them out of there, and out of the war, as soon as possible. He looked forward to fishing, back...
Nothing in the immediate prospect before Omar Bradley directly suggested the end of a war, or even the end of a campaign. But in the eye of his keen, analytical mind General Bradley could see beyond the belching, jerking guns, the wallowing tanks, the struggling infantrymen. The armies on the south flank of the Allied line were moving faster than he, because they were exploiting a weakness which already existed. Bradley was busy creating a weakness-one which may be fatal to Germany...
...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 at the defenses of the Germans...
Order of Battle. For this job Omar Bradley commanded the mightiest of the Allied Army Groups. Montgomery had two armies, the British First, the Canadian First. "Jake" Devers had two, the U.S. Seventh, the French Second. Bradley had three: William Simpson's Ninth, a newcomer on the front; Courtney Hodges' First (the infantry heavyweight) and George Patton's Third (the armored pile driver...
...Tactician. As a tactician, Omar Bradley is blessed with powers of accurate observation and shrewd analysis, a natural affinity for maps and a flair for topography, a prodigious memory which not only endears him to countless juniors whose names he recalls, but enables him to make quick decisions by balancing in his mind all the items of risk against the elements of possible gain. He will accept bold risks if his basic horse sense, of which he has plenty, tells him they are sound...