Word: rundstedt
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From the Ardennes, for example, comes a correspondent who flew home just after Christmas to bring you his detailed understanding of Rundstedt's attack and Eisenhower's counterattack - Jim Shepley. And from Holland comes a TIME reporter who marched with Montgomery's men from D-plus-12 to Eindhoven and Nijmegen and Arnhem - Bill White...
Might-Have-Been. Krueger was born to military tradition older than the U.S. But for the early death of his father, a Prussian colonel, he might today be commanding an army under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. His widowed mother brought her children, including eight-year-old Walter, from Flatow in Prussia to the U.S. to be near an uncle in St. Louis. After she remarried, the family settled in Madison, Ind. Walter's adolescent ambition was to be a naval officer; his mother would not let him apply for appointment to Annapolis. "She was afraid...
...European strategical picture this was important fighting. It had tied down probably 27 Wehrmacht divisions which might otherwise have strengthened Rundstedt's attack in Belgium. Now it had even forced the Germans to bring in another division from Norway. But to the average soldier it remained the toughest, least rewarding campaign. Allied troops on the western front, Russian troops on the eastern front, could see the possibility of winning a decision. In Italy the troops knew only that, unless the victory was won elsewhere first, after the Apennines would come the Alps...
...involuntary tranquilizer of liberated Europe was Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt. His unexpected sweep into Luxembourg and Belgium had sent a chill through every nation from which the Germans had been recently driven. While the chill lasted, liberated Europeans might be expected to bury their deep civil differences in that common grave which held the latest victims of German savagery. At least for the moment, some of the Left and some of the Right seemed to have grasped the fact that so long as the common enemy must still be fought and defeated, they must forgo the luxury...
...explaining the mystery of the doughnut-shaped cushion he carried through the Battle of the Bulge. While the General stood, it circled his arm; when he sat, it was under him. The burning question was: had hard-riding old Georgie Patton finally gone soft? The explanation: on the night Rundstedt attacked, the General took a fall in his blacked-out headquarters, bruised his coccyx...