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...feint at France, in the form of Marauder and Spitfire attacks on airfields at Tricque-ville and St. André-de-1'Eure. This sucked fighters away from the Lowlands in time for 550 Fortresses and Liberators-the largest U.S. heavy bomber force ever used-to cut for Wilhelm shaven with upwards of 1,200 tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made the escort possible-450 Thunderbolts and long-range Lightnings, all carrying belly tanks. As this mass attack returned and German fighters settled again on Lowlands fields, Marauders hit them there...
Prussian military science made one-front war an axiom. Otto von Bismarck never deviated from the axiom and thereby gained an empire. Wilhelm II disregarded it and thereby lost the empire. Adolf Hitler based his strategy on it. Now, fretting over the map of beleaguered Europe, the Führer could see how completely his plans for one-front war had been thwarted...
...King and Dictator, who had bound his people to their second disastrous alliance with Germany, proceeded the titular and real rulers of Bulgaria: the boy King Simeon II, the royal family, the Cabinet of Germanophile Premier Bogdan Filoff and, not least, the representatives of Adolf Hitler-portly Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, stern Fleet Admiral Erich Raeder...
...Including: Erich Weinert, anti-Nazi poet (President); Major Karl Hetz (first Vice President); Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great grandson of Bismarck (second Vice President); Wilhelm Pieck, onetime leader of the Communist bloc in the Reichstag, 29 other less important Germans...
Spanish correspondents in Berlin, reporting the meeting, said that "powers of enormous magnitude" had been given to Hermann Göring; that a triumvirate of Göring, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel and Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz was now the "real head of Germany." Allied capitals were skeptical...