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Trail of Defeat. Then Rommel and his Afrika Korps began the downhill trail which many a good general has trod. He was soundly defeated at El Alamein by an even abler general-Sir Bernard L. Montgomery-and by a superiority of power. Even so, his 1,500-mile retreat across North Africa to Tunisia was masterly. Had his career ended then, he might have been one of military history's heroes...
Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army trod a route rich in U.S. battle memories 26 years after another historic offensive - through Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Soissons, Reims. His tanks were in Sedan on the 74th anniversary of Napoleon III's capture and surrender there. They were well into Belgium before many of his tankmen knew...
...French Forces of the Interior, and General Jacques Leclerc, the commander of France's Second Armored Division. On each side rumbled Leclerc's tanks. Behind the Generals marched leaders of the motley bands of the F.F.I., and behind them the most bizarre parade that ever trod this historic avenue...
...Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, poet and Bowdoin professor of English, who last week trod Longfellow's trail (in Brunswick's First Parish Church) and read a sesquicentennial poem of his own composition...
Across the choppy Channel plowed the French destroyer Combattante, with the Tricolor whipping smartly from her taffrail. From the bridge General Charles de Gaulle looked toward the shore of invaded Normandy. For him this was a solemn hour. He was coming back to la patrie. He had last trod its earth four years ago, when he fled from defeat to exile with the clarion call to his countrymen: "France has lost a battle, but France has not lost...