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...Volksgrenadiere in trenches took up the fight, while armor and SS infantry pulled out. In some sectors, the punching, pushing Allies encountered aggressive "counter-reconnaissance screening forces"-in others, only mines in the snow, unguarded roadblocks and the eternal booby traps. Around Bastogne, Rundstedt counterattacked persistently to shield the swelling stream of German tanks and transport flowing east through Houffalize and Saint-Vith...
...Everything we have seen in this war should convince us that our security can be planned only in combination with some powerful ally or combination of allies competent to shield us with their power and to guarantee [equipment] to our manpower in time of war. . . . The security of Great Britain and Ireland are completely interdependent...
...Italy, astute Field Marshal Kesselring had fought patient General Sir Harold Alexander almost to a standstill, but Alexander in turn was still pinning down 28 German divisions. In Hungary, the Germans were clinging desperately to Budapest; they had to hold it to shield Austria. It seemed too late and too risky to milk the south to reinforce the west. Least of all could the Germans weaken the line from the Baltic to the Carpathians, for there the Russians were cranking up what may be their heaviest blow...
...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...
...virtual annihilation-self-inflicted or imposed-of one of the nations of mankind. Recent suicides (military and civilian) indicate that the Jap yen for suicide is due less to fear of torture and imprisonment by U.S. captors than to a belief that somehow each death provides "a shield for the Emperor" and "contributes to the inevitable victory...