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...fact, TIME men are all over France these days. In the central sector alone, Bill White is heading for Germany with the British armies . . . Jack Belden, fully recovered from the wound he got at Salerno, is back in the thick of things with General Patton's men . . . and Chief Military Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker, Photographer Bob Capa and Correspondent Bill Walton are at the new headquarters TIME has set up at the Hotel Scribe in Paris ("Wert" and Capa jeeped into the city right behind General Leclerc's armored car-believe they were the first Americans to were reach...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. rapped the map with his leather riding crop, which sheathes a glistening poniard. He pointed with it to the next objective, a town 50 miles away. Said he to a Third Army corps commander: "Get there-any way you want to." As he had before, he was demanding the impossible of his supply officers. As before, in this miraculous month, they would get the impossible done...
...last week "Georgie" Patton's supply lines reached more than halfway across France. He was getting gasoline by parachute for his forward tanks. Exactly how far along toward Germany's borders his 35-ton daggers were by this week was something for the enemy to worry about. As a rule, they did not find out until the tanks were upon them, blazing away at their rear. To keep it that way SHAEF clamped a news blackout on Patton's deepest thrusts...
...biggest field command ever held by a U.S. general. Allied Headquarters announced formation of the Twelfth Army Group in northwestern France with Omar Bradley as its boss. Components of the Twelfth Group: the First Army, which Bradley formerly commanded, and the Third, commanded by Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...contrast to his opposite number, noisy, dashing George Patton, Hodges is a sober, soft-voiced professional with a clipped grey mustache; like Bradley, he is a solid infantryman. Unlike Bradley he went only one year to West Point; then enlisted and fought his way up the ranks...