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...outside of Army circles, is softspoken, sandy-haired, 53-year-old Tom Handy. Graduate of V.M.I., artillery expert and one of the Army's shrewdest strategists, Tom Handy is Deputy Chief of Staff. The promotion of desk-bound General Handy ahead of more publicized field commanders (like George Patton, Courtney Hodges, William Simpson) underlined the importance of the home-front military...
...Moselle, upriver from Coblenz, Lieut. General George S. Patton's 5th and goth Divisions had carved out substantial bridgeheads on the south bank. Major General Hugh J. Gaffey's crack 4th Armored Division poured through, shot south into the Hunsrück plateau. Resistance was almost nil. At the narrow Simmer River, the tankmen found the bridges intact, pressed on to Bad Kreuz-nach, junction of three rail lines and four highways. The goth tagged along on Gaffey's left, taking mellow old Rhine towns -Boppard, St. Goar, Bingen-like buttons from a ripped-open shirt...
Scramble for Safety. South of Trier, Patton's 26th and 94th Divisions slammed into the face of the German salient. Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army, with French units on the right, hit the south flank from Saarbrikken to Haguenau. Thus assaulted on three sides, the German First and Seventh Armies began a scramble to get across the Rhine. Allied tactical airplanes swarmed down on the crowded roads and resumed their familiar, pleasant pastime of smashing enemy transport. Some Germans clung to Siegfried Line defenses on the south flank; the longer they fought there, the more...
Lieut. General George S. Patton insists on spit & polish. Soldier-Cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictures G.I.s as grimy and unshaven. Patton recently threatened to ban Stars & Stripes from his Army area unless Mauldin's well-plugged uglies tidied themselves up. Mauldin came back with a cartoon dig at the general. Navy Captain Harry Butcher, General Eisenhower's top aide, told the two to get together...
...Rhine at Brohl and Andernach. They picked up a German major general, his staff and 3,300 men plus a ferry, intact. West of the Rhine they curved northward, met the First Army's southward drive, snapped the handcuffs on more than 40,000 pocketed Germans. Patton's men had Coblenz surrounded and were flattening other pockets back against the Moselle...