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Then and Now. In 1940 it had taken Colonel General Walther von Reichenau 31 days after the breakthrough at Sedan (where a ready-made land front already existed) to capture Paris. In 1944 it had taken Bradley 23 days after the breakthrough at Coutances (where a land front had had to be created in the Normandy bridgehead) to cross the Seine, which permitted Paris to free itself...
...Germans insisted for three days that another Patton wedge had penetrated to Reims, 30 miles northeast of Chateau-Thierry, where battles raged again in the wheat fields. Only 50 miles north of Reims was Sedan, at the Ardennes gateway through which the Germans had plunged into France...
...north and east were terrain and towns he knew as one of World War I's battalion commanders: the Somme, the Argonne, Sedan, Amiens, the Meuse. Those Allied objectives were reminders-if the German command needed any more -of how completely Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley had reversed their classic Schlieffen plan of enveloping France.*Now the Eisenhower-Montgomery wheeling movement, anchored at the mouth of the Seine, was developing arcs that expanded toward Belgium and Germany...
...black sedan rolled toward him and slowed. The street echoed with the slamming roar of gunfire, the black sedan raced away, screeched around a corner and was gone. Big Mike leaped out, began dragging Dago Mangano's moaning, bleeding bulk toward the curb. From around another corner the black sedan careened again. Big Mike pushed his girl to safety. The guns roared, and Big Mike fell beside Mangano, mortally wounded...
They started the Fisher Body Co. in Detroit in 1908. Fred was convinced that the lusty young auto industry would never grow into long pants until it gave up its wide-open touring cars for all-weather sedans. The Fishers concentrated on the mass production of sedan bodies, which were then hand-built and expensive. Their first big order was for 150 sedan bodies. (In 1941, G.M.'s Fisher Body division turned out more than 2,000,000 bodies...