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Could they stand long at the Siegfried Line? It was doubtful. Behind them, Allied air power now ground more savagely than ever into the bowels of the Reich. Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton's First Airborne Army might drop in any night...
...rocket coast, from which London was still taking a sadistic battering, could not stand for long. The key play for the Allies was to take it and plow on to the Reich before the Nazis could start using their next hope: V2. This was the last weapon with which Goebbels & Co. kept the Germans bemused, hoping for victory...
...Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them. Twelve Bulgarian divisions which had eased the German load in Yugoslavia and Greece had to pull out. The Germans had 14 to 16 divisions in those countries; the bulk of them could never get back to the Reich...
...used Le Mans (TIME, Aug. 21). Pivoting on Troyes, his columns had fanned out. One thrust had stabbed toward Alsace and the German Rhineland border, 130 miles to the east. Another had cut northeast and headed for Metz, in mid-Lorraine, next-door neighbor to Luxembourg and the Reich's Saar Valley...
...Destruction. Ike Eisenhower had moved to France and become a field commander again in order to be in at the kill. His tank-infantry teams, swinging in from behind, had brought Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army (20 to 40 divisions of the Reich's best troops) into range of destruction...