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...managed to stave off? There were many reasons. The Germans had managed European agriculture as a whole, introduced some improved methods, distributed food with a harsh, discriminatory-but efficient-hand. Even so, by D-day European food production was already running down for lack of phosphates, tractors, fuel, transport, manpower. After D-day disorganization mounted, European transport disintegrated, the German armies took horses to save fuel, and greatly reduced the working power of European farmers...
...units on the right, hit the south flank from Saarbrikken to Haguenau. Thus assaulted on three sides, the German First and Seventh Armies began a scramble to get across the Rhine. Allied tactical airplanes swarmed down on the crowded roads and resumed their familiar, pleasant pastime of smashing enemy transport. Some Germans clung to Siegfried Line defenses on the south flank; the longer they fought there, the more they were menaced from the rear...
...transport cruising slowly back & forth off the sulphurous, bloody hulk of Iwo Jima, Navy doctors knew there was no chance for Sergeant Charles Carter Anderson Jr., U.S.M.C.; he would never see the sun again. Sixteen hours after the young marine had been brought aboard, he died. His death certificate was filled out and sent to the captain of the ship. Grimly the skipper signed it: Captain Charles Carter Anderson, U.S.N...
...slowness and weakness of the first Nazi counterattacks at Remagen probably reflected a shortage of transport and fuel -and certainly they reflected the massive Allied air campaign against the German rail net which last week roared into its fourth week without a single day's interruption. Field Marshal von Rundstedt must have been thrown badly off balance. He had no doubt counted on plenty of time to regroup his forces, while Eisenhower prepared for the "naval operation" of crossing a bridgeless Rhine...
...declare that it is the role of the State to ensure the adequate exploitation of the great sources of energy-coal, electricity, oil-as well as of the chief means of transport by rail, sea and air. ... It is the State which must dispose of credit. . . ." (Applause from the Left...