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...Luftwaffe general, Smiling Al Kesselring lacked the dash of a Rommel, the Prussian rigor of Von Rundstedt, or the inventive flair of a Guderian; yet he fashioned a career almost as brilliant as theirs. At war's start he commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa, took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow German retreat up the boot of Italy, and ended the war as commander in chief in the West. As told in Kesselring's foot-slogging style, much of this story borders...
Hanging On. On March 8, 1945, Hitler summoned Kesselring and told him he was Von Rundstedt's successor as commander in chief in the West. It is a sign of Hitler's mesmeric hold on his field marshal that with the German front crumbling everywhere, Kesselring can still describe as "lucid" Hitler's analysis of the situation, the gist of which was that the Russians could be crushed, after which the combined German armies would sweep the Americans, British and French from the Continent. Kesselring was determined to "hang on" in the West until the "decision...
...boilers). When Eddie was judged ready, the Germans strapped ?2,000 on his back, fitted him out with an English-made suit, shoes, detonators, wireless set, and an identity card salvaged from the dead of Dieppe. His mission: to blow up the De Havilland factory making Mosquito bombers. Von Rundstedt himself wished him godspeed...
Texas Took the General Sir: I should like to swell the almost certain chorus from the state of Texas in protesting your March 9 statement that "the British" captured Von Rundstedt at Bad Tölz. General Von Rundstedt was captured at Bad Tölz, somewhat dramatically, by 2nd Lieut. Joseph E. Burke of St. Petersburg, Fla., then a platoon leader in the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th ("Texas") Infantry Division . . . JOHN F. MORGAN Canton, Ohio...
Died. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, 77, Prussian commander of German armies under Hitler from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of the Bulge; of a circulatory ailment; in Hanover, Germany (see INTERNATIONAL...