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Four Armies. Marshal Zhukov probably had more than 1,000,000 men massed before the Berlin sector. To the north were some 500,000 more-the armies of Marshals Alexander M. Vasilevsky and Konstantin K. Rokossovsky. which had flattened the East Prussia and Pomerania pockets. To the south, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's big First Ukrainian Army was launched to hurl itself toward Dresden. Against all this massive weight was the largest force the shredded Wehrmacht could muster: perhaps 900,000 men in formidable defense positions. But greater German forces had failed to stop the Red Army when...
...Third Army sector, Lieut. General George S. Patton's armor had driven into the outskirts of Kassel (see below). South of Patton, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army-a late starter across the Rhine-was one of the farthest east. South of Patch this week the French First Army jumped across the Rhine to join the fight in the Karlsruhe area. Somewhere between Patton and Hodges to the north, the U.S. Fifteenth Army came into battle...
...three days & nights Allied planes had worked over 53 target areas in the Ruhr-Westphalia sector, north and east of Field Marshal Montgomery's points of attack. Crossroads villages became the rims of great craters. Towns burned like torches for a night, smoldered for a day, then lay blackened and dead. The rain of bombs knocked out cities' antiaircraft defenses, and the flak vanished. Then the cities themselves vanished under clouds of flame-streaked smoke...
...intend to act in such a way that . . . individual merit and private initiative will remain as the basis of national activity. . . . We do not imagine our French economy of tomorrow without a 'free sector,' as large as possible. . . . [But] we declare that the State must hold the master switches...
...days, the Yanks took 4,000 prisoners. On the fourth day, they were within 10½ miles of Cologne and had it under artillery fire. The rate of advance was much better than in last November's offensive on this sector, and U.S. casualties were pronounced lighter than expected...