Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days Allied reconnaissance planes had been reporting troop move ments in the Palatinate (southwestern corner of the German Rhineland), so the attack could not have been another sur prise. But the U.S. Seventh Army troops in that area found it hard to deal with. The deepest thrust reached 15 miles to the south before it was stopped...
...borrowed strength from the south to mount their offensive in the north (see above). Last week U.S. Lieut. General Jacob Devers found weak spots in the Vosges mountains of northern Alsace, quickly seized the chance to invade Germany in his south-to-north assault aimed at the western Rhineland plain...
General de Gaulle was also reported to have brought back from Moscow Russia's agreement to a plan to amputate the Rhineland from the Reich, convert it into an independent state under international, mainly French supervision. Twice before-in 1801-15 and 1919-30-France had briefly held the left bank of the Rhine. This time France intended her "Left Bank" plan to be more permanent. But whether or not General de Gaulle had convinced the Kremlin of the validity of Foch's dictum-". . . the Rhine is the military frontier of the western European nations against Germany...
Meanwhile the Allied air effort to wall off the Rhineland battle arena from interior Germany continued in full force. Perhaps Eisenhower might wait until this process was further along (it can never be 100% complete), or until the Russians get going on the East Prussia-Poland front. But Eisenhower knew that what the enemy most wanted him to do was to wait. Surveying the Allied reserves, the Germans could conclude that he had no intention of accommodating them. Still up General "Ike's" sleeve was a potent threat-General Brereton's powerful airborne army. It was a fair...
Last week the Air Ministry sadly posted 26-year-old Guy Gibson as missing-ten weeks after he had failed to return from a mission as master bomber in a night attack on Rheydt, now in the path of the U.S.-British advance to the Rhineland...