Word: rhinelander
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...Third was fighting far to the south of Bradley's main effort, on the lower side of the wooded uplands of the Ardennes, which stretch across Luxembourg into the central Rhineland. Strategically the Third's campaign was still a part of the U.S.-French effort to clear the Germans from Alsace-Lorraine (and incidentally to trap some of the 50,000 enemy troops which had been holding the Vosges...
Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill made a quick tour of the French Army front in the Vosges, then closed their friendliest of meetings with the friendliest adieux. Reported Reuters: it was agreed that in the coming occupation of Germany, French troops would hold the Rhineland...
...Allied big bombers, which used their hidden-target instruments when necessary to unload through overcast. With Duisburg and Cologne temporarily shattered, the heavies turned their attention to Hamm, Bonn, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Mannheim and other supply ganglia serving the West Wall. It was an effort to wall off the Rhineland from the interior-just as, in the Battle of France, Allied air power had isolated the fighting area between the Loire and the Seine...
...served in the Rhineland occupation (in the same area that his First Army's maps now cover). He returned to a ten-year tour of troop duty, of instruction in the Army's schools, of teaching from the textbooks. For 14 years Major Courtney Hodges had no promotions. Like many another professional soldier, he learned again that in peace the soldiers' rewards are small and few. But it was his life. He read, studied, worked with characteristic precision at field and garrison duties...
...Britain would administer northwest Germany, including the North Sea ports and the industrial Rhineland...