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...Germans tried to hold back the weight of Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army in the Aachen sector. They threw in flame-spouting tanks in three fierce attacks. But the Americans stood...
...froze in their foxholes. For days these men, who lacked confidence in their officers, were held up by handfuls of Japs in caves. When it began to look as if what had been gained might be lost, Fourth Marine Division troops even moved in front of a sector of the 27th's line to save it. From the Marine point of view, General Ralph Smith's chief fault was that he had long ago failed to get tough enough to remove incompetent subordinate officers...
...fact, TIME men are all over France these days. In the central sector alone, Bill White is heading for Germany with the British armies . . . Jack Belden, fully recovered from the wound he got at Salerno, is back in the thick of things with General Patton's men . . . and Chief Military Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker, Photographer Bob Capa and Correspondent Bill Walton are at the new headquarters TIME has set up at the Hotel Scribe in Paris ("Wert" and Capa jeeped into the city right behind General Leclerc's armored car-believe they were the first Americans to were reach...
...German broadcast quoted Field Marshal Walter Model, commanding the Warsaw sector: "After weeks of receding, the time has come to stick to our positions. New forces from the Reich are arriving. "By Moscow account, the Germans had thrown into the fight 16 divisions scraped up from western Poland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Norway...
There was another sector on the west, where the Allied beachhead in Normandy hung in stalemate and German skill seemed to be accomplishing something. Then came the breakthrough: Brittany was lost, a steel-tipped javelin poised to hurl at Paris, heart of Germany's western defenses. Nor could Hitler find any comfort in the south. There nothing was left except a weary German army, fighting in Northern Italy-where it might yet be trapped...