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...Gabriel Delattre de Tassigny's French First Army (including American divisions), closed a pincers, cutting the Colmar pocket in two. Of some 10,000 Germans, all that were left of the 25,000 originally in the pocket, many were locked in the circle, others were pinned against the Rhine, whose bridges were being hammered by Allied planes. Allied troops entered Colmar...
...William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army were already drumming a prelude to battles to come. Six new armored divisions, four new infantry divisions had suddenly appeared in this area, said the Nazi radio. The Allies, it added, were preparing for a smash across the Cologne plain to the Rhine...
...settle matters in advance than to round up points of view for Franklin Roosevelt. With such a roundup, he will know better what he wants to discuss when he sits down opposite Joseph Stalin and laughingly asks him: "What are you going to do when you get to the Rhine?" (see below...
...Gasser off his neck, but the high command turned a deaf ear. The war's paramount need was for men who could fight, and they had to be dug up, no matter what it cost. In December, the cry for fighting men became more insistent. The Rhine Valley offensive had cost Eisenhower 55,000 more men than he could immediately replace. With rifle strength in many divisions cut a third to a half, Eisenhower shouted for reinforcements. The Ardennes breakthrough made his appeal more urgent than ever...
...What will you do when you get to the Rhine...