Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly, with the news of the German breakthrough, many U.S. preoccupations-even Christmas-seemed like luxuries. It was no time to scramble into a peacetime job, or to talk about manufacturing refrigerators...
Eisenhower has a pleasant and sense-making way of telling his commanders what his general strategic objectives are, then letting them devise their own tactics. It was Bradley who designed the breakthrough to the west side of the Normandy peninsula, cutting off Cherbourg, and the breakthrough at Saint-Lô which began the battle of France. For the latter, he had an unheard-of number of heavy bombers laying down a tactical preparation (causing some U.S. casualties), and he had not only regiments but divisions attacking in column. Bradley also designed the Argentan-Falaise pincers, and the scythelike sweeps...
...Germans feared a breakthrough most in the north, but they could not bolster the north by leaving the Saar and the upper Rhine uncovered. They could not stand a rupture anywhere, because of the scarcity of reserves and the difficulty of moving them under the merciless Allied bombing...
...Nazis took too long to tire, General Ivan Bagramyan's army group, poised on the banks of the Niemen on Chern-yakhovsky's right flank, could help things along by a breakthrough from the north. On Chernyakhovsky's left, Colonel General Georgi Zakharov was reported by the Germans to be attacking in the Masurian Lakes region with hundreds of tanks and planes, behind a "drumfire of artillery" (the usual German phrase indicating a breakthrough assault...
Most of the German strength in the west is now committed to the fighting lines. The longer the blow is delayed, the longer Hitler will have to scrape up and train his ersatz divisions, to toughen his defenses in depth. On the other hand, a real breakthrough might tear the present front hopelessly open, might furnish the momentum for the knockout wallop in the west...