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With two minutes remaining in the game, though, the home five gave the small gathering of navy men and civilians a chance to cheer by notching a couple of quick baskets and closing the gap slightly. HARVARD G F TP Clark, lf 1 3 5 Johnson 3 1 7 Chapple, rf 2 0 4 Wright 0 0 0 Mackintosh, c 0 1 1 Pierce 0 0 0 Noble 1 1 3 Keene, rg 1 0 2 Burk 1 0 2 Collins, lg 0 0 0 Kelsey...
...this time, the enemy was maneuvered out of position. He sent some 3,000 reinforcements south to counterattack near Colmar, thus let down his right guard. Jake Devers let go a stiff punch. On back trails through the Saverne Gap he sent Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc's* French armored division driving toward Strasbourg. The Germans, apparently expecting that any advance would be along the gap's one main road, again found themselves bypassed, surrounded in pockets. Leclerc's tanks brushed through a shell of resistance, reached Alsace's capital (where children cheered them in German...
This battle-born first-aid treatment (which Major Mustard says has been previously demonstrated on animals, but never before on human beings): a glass tube is fitted into the pulsing ends of a severed artery, bridging the gap so that the wounded member may live until the patient is strong enough to stand an operation. Intravenous injections of heparin prevent dangerous clotting in the tube...
...Aachen, battlewise First Army troops found they could lunge instead of slog. They lunged upon Eschweiler, nearly midway between Aachen and Düren and astride the six-lane Adolf Hitler Highway to Cologne, only 28 miles away. There the battle turned fluid. More Germans rushed to that gap in their dike, launched weak, futile counterattacks...
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's French First Army (Moroccans, Algerians, Senegalese, F.F.I.s) pushed into the Belfort Gap. When German resistance crumbled, one French force captured Belfort while another bypassed it to the south and reached the Rhine...