Word: rundstedt
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...That was Rundstedt's first upset. The second was the heroic refusal of the 101st Airborne to be overrun at Bastogne. The Americans' northern peg held firm when a regiment of one of the overrun divisions refused to give ground and enabled First Army divisions to the north to wheel in on that flank...
...missed the concentration of Rundstedt's power, American intelligence was quick to recover. By the end of the second day 17 German divisions had been identified in the attack...
...Rundstedt's plan by now was clear. He had made a historic throw of the dice and his prize was time. If successful in disrupting the Allies' armies, he could win six months-six months to scrape up combat manpower, while German scientists and technicians hurried to develop their new V-weapons...
...commanders in Europe do not underestimate the final, desperate German struggle for survival. The fighting this week and next week is critical. German momentum is spending but not completely spent. If the Allied counterattacks are successful, Rundstedt may lose much or all of the last German reserves in the west. But in recent months all Germany has grown as fierce and fanatical in its losing struggle as the banzai-charging Japanese infantry...
...March, wrinkled, spade-bearded, soldier-straight, World War I U.S. Chief of Staff, who said on his 79th birthday last year that an Allied victory in Europe in 1944 was "not in the cards," reached 80 and sounded off again. "There is no escaping the fact that the situation [Rundstedt's attack] is very serious. . . . Our intelligence service broke down completely. They appear to have been unaware of a German force of 200,000 men. . . . Imagine the population of Richmond [200,000] being assembled across the Potomac and we not knowing about it." Asked to predict...