Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bavarian hills last week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army hit a weak spot and found a German sore spot. His loth Armored Division carved a startling 30-mile breakthrough to within 45 miles of the upper waters of the Danube. This was a delicate area for the Nazis-the Napoleonic route of invasion toward Vienna. Over it Patch's men might strike through to split Germany...
...piece of vein and a few bits of bloodvessel-sized vitallium tubing. (Vitallium is the non-irritating surgical alloy.) Given an artery with a section missing or damaged, the doctors snip each end neatly, then cut a section of one of the patient's own veins for a patch. (Loss of a vein is not dangerous, as other veins readily take over its work...
...Third Army sector, Lieut. General George S. Patton's armor had driven into the outskirts of Kassel (see below). South of Patton, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army-a late starter across the Rhine-was one of the farthest east. South of Patch this week the French First Army jumped across the Rhine to join the fight in the Karlsruhe area. Somewhere between Patton and Hodges to the north, the U.S. Fifteenth Army came into battle...
...They had reason to fear him. He had consistently out-slicked them, mauled them, beaten them. The Germans had always put more men and guns opposite Patton's outfits. Now there were fewer German men and guns. One reason: Patton's Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army had rung up one of the big victories of the war in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, had removed more than 150,000 Germans who might now be blocking Patton's path...
...Patch's Seventh, without help of aircraft or artillery, hurdled the Rhine (the Germans reported that Yanks were in Karlsruhe). The French First Army was getting set to follow (Paris reported that it already had). There were no Germans left on the west side for the French and Patch's men to clean out. One reason was evident on a three-mile stretch of road in Patch's conquered area. There, mangled to shreds, was an enemy supply train of 400 vehicles. In the wreckage lay the carcasses of hundreds of horses, the bodies of scores...