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...Saint-Malo, a lesser port on the northern coast, the situation was different. The Germans had 10,000 men in the defenses when a U.S. spearhead drove across the causeway and into the ancient, walled, seagirt city. By this week the U.S. forces had killed, captured or wounded 7,000 of them, held nine-tenths of the town...
...last week's final assault, most of Merrill's Marauders were missing from Stilwell's American spearhead (see ARMY & NAVY). His assault force was three Chinese divisions and a few U.S. combat engineers. In preparation for the attack, Chinese dug trenches through Japanese machine-gun fields, and Americans flew in a five-ton 155-mm. howitzer-the biggest gun ever used in the battle. When the assault burst...
...divisions that rate highly with Monty are the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders, which were wiped out in glory before Dunkirk, were revivified to spearhead the breakthrough at El Alamein, and are with him today in Normandy. It was to troops of that sort that Monty made one of his famous proclamations: "Nothing has stopped us . . . Nothing will...
Farther south, the Russians straddled the railroad to Minsk and Warsaw, advanced on Orsha, while a long and powerful spearhead between Orsha and Zhlobin threatened to envelop Mogilev and Bobruisk, the Nazis' two main rail junctions in the bulge...
...first reaction was elation. The papers said that the Anglo-Saxons had stirred up a hornet's nest. Their spearhead would be broken and the Wehrmacht would be free at last to teach the Russians the futility of further efforts to advance. The fond dream of a negotiated peace began to come alive. Quislings sent brave greetings to the Fiihrer-duly published- and the people recalled the devastating powers of mysterious secret weapons...