Word: rundstedts
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...invasion. As soldiers always do, men on the late watches talk of home, of furloughs and women, of comrades on other fields. But the spirit that stands beside them in the darkness is the spirit of their commander: austere, 66-year-old Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander in Chief of all mobile defense and garrison troops (including air forces) in Holland, Belgium and Occupied France...
Headquarters, Sedan. Marshal von Rundstedt is seldom on the coast by night. Slim, immaculate, the apotheosis of the old Junker class that has furnished the upstart Hitler with his military brains, Gerd von Rundstedt stays by night close to his headquarters at Sedan...
There, where France's shame had been twice compounded-in 1870 when Napoleon III surrendered to Moltke, in 1940 when Rundstedt's army poured through a gaping rent in Corap's line-Rundstedt sits with his staff. On the breast of his tunic gleam bright ribbons won in that and many another triumph-Poland, Russia, the Lowlands-and from his high collar dangles the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. But Gerd von Rundstedt has little time for dreams of past glories...
...strong German armies waiting in western Europe, a 25-mile layer of heavy guns, pillboxes and concrete fortresses along the Channel coast, air and armored forces waiting at central points to rush to any invasion sector. Germany's "Commander in the West," tough, wrinkled Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, unquestionably had real and formidable defenses to inspect when he toured them last week...
...plans for the Canadians. But wherever he is, at the British War Office or at U.S. headquarters in London, General McNaughton always has with him a portfolio of thumb-worn maps. They are maps of the coast of northern France, where Hitler's Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt waits with his guns...