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...bomb-pocked roads of Europe, the trucks which moved in radiator-to-buckboard line were wearing out at a rate so fantastic that the actual number is still a military secret. In the northwest sector alone, 5,000 new tires were needed daily...
...slamming ahead on a 75-mile front from the southern corner of Luxembourg to the Rhine-Marne Canal north of the Vosges. He was encircling the ancient fortress of Metz, German kingbolt position on this sector and strongest shield in front of the coal, steel and pig iron of the Saar Basin...
...dreary process began all over again at Liuchow, 100 miles to the southwest. Colonel Richard Wise, commanding the Third Sector, China Air Service Command, worked around the clock to get out all the men, equipment and supplies which he had worked the year around to get in-up to 3,000 planeloads flown over the costly Hump route; a million gallons of aviation fuel, torturously accumulated and stored, now impossible to save. With the Japs only 30 miles away, a U.S.O. troupe dropped in and gave a show.* Said Sergeant William Gould: "This is the most cheerful crisis...
...Half a league, half a league . . . good lord! This is serious. You must cut that, though you can say we made small advances in that sector.' (Slash...
...sound strategic move, reflected the return to command on the western front of Germany's No. 1 soldier, chill Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who was apparently back in Hitler's favor. Field Marshal Walter von Model, the previous commander, was now in charge of the northern sector under Rundstedt. Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz commanded the southern...