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...funnel at Houffalize, which had served its purpose, but seemed determined to hold the funnel at Saint-Vith for a few days longer. Clearing weather enabled Allied tactical pilots to take a last crack at German vehicles, of which they destroyed more than 1,000. On the south, General Patton's onrushing Third Army came within range of German guns firing from the casemates of the Westwall itself...
...hold apart the Allied pincers north and south of Houffalize-and he did. But in the "box position" which jutted southeast of Bastogne, the Germans were mauled. The area had been shelled by heavy Allied field guns 24 hours a day ever since Dec. 27. Finally, General Patton attacked the box simultaneously from west and south, trapped a sizable enemy force, captured 3,400, killed other thousands, chased the rest into the woods...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. ended whispered speculation among his subordinates by explaining the mystery of the doughnut-shaped cushion he carried through the Battle of the Bulge. While the General stood, it circled his arm; when he sat, it was under him. The burning question was: had hard-riding old Georgie Patton finally gone soft? The explanation: on the night Rundstedt attacked, the General took a fall in his blacked-out headquarters, bruised his coccyx...
Smart General Patton had brought plenty of artillery into the Bastogne pocket. Thirteen battalions of big field guns laid down a two-hour barrage. The paratroopers heard German wounded screaming in the woods. Of 28 attacking German tanks, 21 were knocked out by artillery, three more by U.S. tanks and tank destroyers. The other four fled...
Tall (6 ft.), gregarious Hoyt Vandenberg still had a big outfit and able sub-commanders. The XIX Tactical Air Command, headed by quiet, efficient Brigadier General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland (rhymes with island) was Vandenberg's link to the battlefields of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. Vandenberg's bomber outfit was a whopper, headed by Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, whose Marauders and Havocs had played a big part in pushing the German airfields back from the Atlantic in advance of Dday...