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...this week, however, he gave no sign of preparing such a move. His salient was contracting, but it was shrinking around a hard armored shell-in which he might be regrouping for another thrust at Liège, main Allied rear base for the Aachen-Cologne sector. The first heavy German blow in four days was an assault by three divisions on the Bastogne corridor...
...north, Rundstedt had fought a slowly yielding defense back to the Roer River, and had struck while the Allies were building up their strength for a crossing. Rundstedt may also have timed his strikes to hit home before a Russian offensive could be launched on the central Polish sector...
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's skillful breakthrough had had the first great element of success: surprise. He had struck the thinnest sector of the American line. He had cleverly begun with light attacks, concealing his intentions, playing upon the Americans' underestimation of his strength...
Moscow gave no word of action in the Baltic sector, no reply to Allied criticism of inaction. The Red Army could have cited major difficulties, chiefly that of supplying an offensive front 1,200 to 1,600 miles from main production centers. The Germans had run into that problem, at about the same distances, in their disastrous effort to take Stalingrad. Before a prolonged offensive could be built up, it had been necessary for the Russians to build up rail transport in battle-ravaged eastern Poland. Winter had come late...
Crowds of Filipinos, some bearing the Stars & Stripes, ran down one sector of the beach and halted the bombardment. The first assault wave landed dry-footed on the steep, grey beach. Not a shot had been fired against them. An hour later, Zero fighter-bombers turned up, but half were shot down...