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Included in Mr. Stimson's figures were the casualties in the Ardennes sector during the first three weeks of the German breakthrough: 40,000.* This figure still did not entirely reflect the change wrought by the German breakthrough; e.g., the 106th Division, with more than 8,000 casualties, was smashed, had to be rebuilt before it could go into action again...
Along every mile of the 25-mile sector he had chosen to smash, Marshal Konev had lined 300 to 400 guns-long-barreled giants, stubby, deep-throated howitzers, crackling light fieldpieces. On row upon row of U.S.-made trucks were batteries of Katushas, the rocket-projecting pride of Soviet artillerymen...
Road to Silesia. On Saturday night Moscow broke out its own fire for the first time in many weeks. Twenty salvos from 224 guns saluted Konev's offensive. Marshal Stalin hailed an initial victory-an advance of 25 miles on the sector 100 miles south of Warsaw...
...there were other tasks that might have been tackled back of the 50-mile sector through which Rundstedt struck. There bridges were intact, roads were unharmed. A rail line operated from the Rhine nearly to the Allied line opposite Trier...
German boldness in this sector was obviously due to Allied preoccupation in the Ardennes. There were no military objectives in the region worth a really major effort, even if Rundstedt could spare the reserves to make one. It seemed more probable that the German was trying to draw off more strength from the Third Army's front between the Luxembourg border and Saarbrücken...