Word: retreats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Grinning Belgians made a point of sitting at sidewalk cafés to sip beer or lemonade and watch the retreat-tattered, dusty men, walking, piled on horse-drawn carts, or riding bicycles which were sometimes without tires. Madly the Germans tried to exchange rum, margarine and other rations for civilian clothes. Fascist Rexists had waited three days at the railway station for a train that never came, then slunk off to hide as best they could. Said a German officer: "We do not like traitors; we merely use them...
Decision: Retreat. The troop commander put off the first retirement for two more hours. His tired old-young face, lean as a shell splinter, mirrored his doubt, his brief hope that he could hold, and finally his resolve to save what he had left for another day. He made that decision only after an infantryman from the fragile line near the town burst into the C.P. His face was bleeding slightly, his eyes were glazed. He could hardly talk until the troop medico had patched and soothed him. Then he said, still stammering, that German tanks had broken into...
Eisenhower had seen the larger opportunity: to destroy the entire enemy force in western France. He allowed the pocket to remain unclosed, sent more American tanks looping eastward, then northward again. The enemy was being squeezed into retreat; his reinforcements were meeting his routed troops. In confused retreat the enemy could be cut to pieces in the larger trap, as Lee's armies had been lacerated in their successive retreats to Petersburg, Richmond, finally Appomattox...
West of Paris other elements of Patton's Third and of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army streaked across enlarged bridgeheads over the Seine. Their clear objective: a sweep northward to cut the retreat Allied pilots reported the Germans were making from their robomb coast. A parallel column, 15 miles to the east of Paris, was at the Marne near Lagny...
...poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit the retreat he had helped to create...