Word: patton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordnance's jobs is to determine when soldiers' criticism of a weapon is based on fact and when it is just griping. In the case of the Royal Tiger and its 88-mm. gun, front-line criticism was impressively dismissed by fighting commanders, including Eisenhower and Patton, as a gripe. It was not until recently that field commanders decided the front-line men might be right and asked-but too late-for the T-26. There would not even be a token force of Pershings on hand now if Ordnance had not started building them more than...
Strong Heave. The Allies had only begun the one strong heave which Churchill had predicted would end the struggle quickly. In their expanding sectors east of the Rhine, the Americans were speedily turning to fluid movement. After a surprise crossing, Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr.'s Third Army was on the loose (see below). Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army had slashed a quick opening, 'after its crossings downriver from Duisburg, and cut a bypassing path north of the Ruhr Valley's complex of industrial cities. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First...
...Germans, preoccupied with the Montgomery-Simpson threat in the north (see above}, let part of Lieut. General George S. Patton's dashing Third Army out of sight for a night along the Rhine last week. Using no chemical smoke, but combining the elements of speed and daring, the Third quietly jumped the barrier near Worms that night. It did not lose a man, did not draw a shot until the crossing had been made solid...
...less harried German command would have known better. In less than a fortnight Patton's Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army had cut to ribbons two good German armies in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, and had taken 100,000 prisoners the Wehrmacht could not afford to lose. Now Patton posed an even more serious threat to the weakening foe. He was in position to strike into the Main River valley, to try to split northern and southern Germany, thus perhaps prevent the expected Nazi move to hole up in the Bavarian and Austrian Alps...
...Patton lost no time in seizing his opportunity. The day after his crossing he struck boldly, dashed nearly 30 miles through and around Darmstadt, entered Frankfurt, the Reich's ninth city. More important, the Third seized a Main bridge south of Frankfurt, put another force along the river opposite Hanau, ten miles east of Frankfurt. If Patton were to be held back, the Germans would have to match his speed - and they never...