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...dear Addison-I have been trying to look out for the health and happiness of soldiers for 35 years. However your letter is the first time I have ever received written thanks, and I am very appreciative. . . . Happy and Victorious New Year. (Signed) G. S. Patton Jr., Lieut. General, U.S.A., Commanding...
Shrinking Salient. Last week Patton's wedge was only 13 miles from the First Army dents in the north. The German position was something like that in the Falaise-Argentan pincers of last summer. Could the Germans get out? It was well to remember that last summer, when the Wehrmacht was less ably commanded than it is now, the Germans who had seemed hopelessly bottled in the Falaise trap were able to extricate five divisions of armor almost intact. If Rundstedt was content with the delay and damage already wrought against his foes in the west, he might...
...Bastogne, soon after the German offensive began, hurried parts of two U.S. armored divisions-the 9th and 10th of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. In speeding trucks came almost the full strength of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagle" paratroops and glidermen whose toughness and contempt fot danger are legendary. Back upon Bastogne fell straggling groups from U.S. outfits that had been chewed...
Bastogne's ordeal was not entirely over. That night the Germans cut the narrow shaft Colonel Abrams' men had carved, and Bastogne got more shells from the other sides. But the narrow path was cleared next day and General Patton's tanks lanced on into the German bulge while Bastogne's wounded & weary went out to safety in a convoy of ambulances and trucks...
General Eisenhower started his counterattacks in motion within a few hours. He ordered Patton to attack in force from the south toward Bastogne and against the German flank in Luxembourg. Because of disrupted communication lines he switched command of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies from General Bradley's headquarters to the Twenty First Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Montgomery. Monty was to meet the German spearhead in the west and counterattack toward Patton from the north with British and U.S. divisions...