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G.I.s in the hard-fought Saar sector last week reported that the Germans battled like devils until capture was inevitable; then on surrender calmly professed pro-Allied feelings. In a group of prisoners there was invariably one well rehearsed in an opening gesture of friendliness. His routine: "I have a cousin in Milwaukee. I haven't eaten in three days. I have never shot an American...
Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan's forces made a 40-mile advance below surrounded Bhamo, threatened to cut in behind Jap troops retreating from the Salween and had a chance to clear the whole blocked sector of the Burma Road...
...scheduled the start of Patton's push a week ahead of the Cologne offensive on the chance that Field Marshal von Rundstedt might shove reserves into the southern breaches. Rundstedt did not yield to this incitement. Instead he crowded more men, fire power and armor into the sector east of Aachen...
Chips on the Table. Into one 18-mile stretch of this sector the Germans packed twelve divisions, of which six were Panzer (armored) or Panzer Grenadier (motorized with some armor), and six were top-notch infantry. Practically all their known mobile reserves on this front-eight or ten divisions-were believed to be lurking behind. The Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured...
...Strasbourg represented more than a fitting French triumph and the riddance of the enemy from all but the last bits of France. By this week the southernmost sector of the western front held the promise of the first success in the Allies' surging campaign to break up the enemy's weaker forces and destroy them piecemeal...