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...decision was announced on what may be a considerable secondary problem: how exactly to employ Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Patch, Devers, Eaker, Spaatz, et al. Will they serve under General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz...
...short, the Germans were badly cheated at the price they paid. And now they continued to pay for their miscalculation, for Eisenhower was two jumps ahead of their timetable. Since Lieut. General George S. Patton's swing through Normandy, they had never been ready for the next blow...
...Iowa insurance agent, he was named after his mother, who bore the unusual name of John Clifford Hodges II (her family, vexed that she was not a boy, named her after her father, a captain in the Confederate Army). He graduated from West Point with George Patton and Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers in the class of 1909. As an Army engineer Lee served in the Philippines, built dams on the Ohio River, was aide to Major General Leonard Wood...
...England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged collaborationist. * In Hollywood, Producer Hunt Stromberg announced plans for a motion picture based on Patton's life, to be called Blood and Guts...
...Allied tides in the west. The new oberbefehlshaber was stocky, monocled, 53-year-old Walter von Model (rhymes with yodel), popular in Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River, to gain time. General Patton's Third Army crossed the Moselle last week but suffered heavy losses doing it, cleared a long section of the Maginot forts, found many of its eastward-pointed guns still operable...