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General Eisenhower, whose troops far to the rear fought and battered with redoubled fury to get more ports, seemed more concerned with the supply problem than with his next tactical effort: the Siegfried Line...
...commander, and the second in command followed him into the darkness. Only the sergeant was left in the room. "It's tough on them," he said. Soon the troop's armored cars, tanks and bantams (cavalry slang for jeeps), were rolling up the dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that any ending is an anticlimax for men who have survived the near brush of death...
That was all, except that the troop, promised a rest, got exactly half an hour of "rest," after they went into a rear area the next morning. When I last saw them, the column was on the road again, forming up for a counterattack in our valley...
...stubborn," grinned the lieutenant. He turned to the MP escort in the jeep behind him. Said he: "If this guy makes a break, just plug him." The jeeps whisked off to the rear. Major General Richter stared straight ahead...
...enemy's intentions were clear and frightening: the second column swung west to Chiyang-in the rear of the Chinese troops which had been massed to check the drive. With almost no motor transport, the Chinese lacked the mobility of the Japs. It was doubtful that they could prevent a junction between the enemy's Shaoyang and Chiyang columns...