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...Secretary Stimson's periodic announcement of war casualties made grim reading last week. Total U.S. casualties in three years of war now total 663,859, more than two and a half times the U.S. casualties of World...
...were during the concentrated and furious period of the Normandy invasion. D-day also marked the beginning of a sharp ascent (see chart) which continued to mount as the fighting raged closer to Germany's borders. U.S. Army casualties in Europe from D-day to Jan. 1, said Stimson, have been 54,562 dead, 232,672 wounded, 45,678 missing. The Secretary could have added, had he been so minded, that while the casualties on Normandy beaches were lower than the most optimistic had guessed, the total as of Jan. 1, 1945 was substantially higher than even the pessimistic...
Included in Mr. Stimson's figures were the casualties in the Ardennes sector during the first three weeks of the German breakthrough: 40,000.* This figure still did not entirely reflect the change wrought by the German breakthrough; e.g., the 106th Division, with more than 8,000 casualties, was smashed, had to be rebuilt before it could go into action again...
Those who know the details of what Hopkins does form a small circle indeed?Generals Marshall and Arnold, Admirals King and Leahy, Cabinet Members Stimson, Forrestal and Stettinius, and, of course, the President?men not given to idle chatter. On many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins?being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike...
...Army game of passing the buck has to end somewhere. Overall Army policy is made in Washington by War Secretary Stimson, and General Marshall, Hap Arnold, other members of the General Staff...