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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...
...glory of North Africa, but behind his brilliant tactics was the brilliant strategy of his chief-Alexander. In Italy, too, Alexander stayed in the background, let Generals Mark W. Clark of the Fifth and Sir Oliver Leese of the Eighth win the headlines in the long march up the peninsula of Italy. In his new post Alexander will still have the overall guidance of the Italian campaign, also guide the Empire's hand in the Balkans, the Near East...
...Walcheren Island, north of the Scheldt estuary that leads to Antwerp. There some 7,000 bitter-ending Germans held fast: they had to be eliminated before the Allies could send ships in to the port. By land Walcheren could be reached only by a causeway from the pipe-shaped peninsula of South Beveland, but the Germans were holding that bottleneck with murderous fire. The Allied solution: a seaborne attack...
British units in Lieut. General Henry Crerar's First Canadian Army crossed the estuary in assault boats and amphibious vehicles, made a pre-dawn landing on South Beveland, joined up with Canadians who had fought their way out along the isthmus. This week the attackers overran Goes, the peninsula's communications center. It only remained to press on to flooded Walcheren, blast the Nazis out of Flushing...
Last week, more than 100 B-29 Superfortresses roared out to attack Anshan, with smaller diversionary blows at Dairen, on the Kwantung Peninsula, and at Loyang and Kaifeng, in occupied China. Every plane that left the ground returned safely-adding to the evidence that the last bugs are being driven out of the giant bombers. Radioed happy General ("Hap") Arnold to the 20th Bombardment Group: "I reserve a special pat on the back for your ground crews and all maintenance and supply crews...