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Everywhere French patriot armies were rising, to fight the invader in his rear, to help Allied air fleets paralyze his movements. General Brereton's airborne army of 250,000 men was still a hovering menace that might swoop to cut any line of retreat anywhere. It could be used to speed the juncture of the Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge...
Wherever it could, the Eighth Army pushed patrols out to test the forward positions of the Gothic Line. By all reasonable standards the Nazis should have been ready to pull out: the landings on the Riviera to their rear were cutting off one of their escape routes; they were reduced to twelve battered divisions...
...headquarters on Guam which his forces had just recaptured, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz gave an idea of the method to be used. It will be continuous blows of Nimitz' mighty Central Pacific forces -two complete teams: the Third Fleet under Admiral Halsey, with the Third Amphibious Group under Rear Admiral Conolly and the III Amphibious Corps under Major General Geiger; the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Spruance, with the Fifth Amphibious Group under Rear Admiral Hill and the V Amphibious Corps under Major General Schmidt...
...Lieut. General WalterC. Short's and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimme's failure to coordinate their efforts was one of the things responsible for the disaster at Pearl Harbor. (Kimmel protested this week that Truman made "false statements concerning my conduct...
...battle line. It hopes and intends to bring out at least half a million soldiers from desks and shops to combat duty. To fill noncombat jobs that still have to be filled, battle veterans and non-battle casualties fit for only limited duty are being brought back to rear areas...