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Montgomery

série:	2nd WW hommes de guerre
éditeur:	Time Magazine
auteur:	Collectif
classement:	dossier722
année:	1944
format:	broché
état:	TBE
valeur:	20 €
critère:	**
remarques:	volume XLIV, number 2 World battles 1) the war July 1944 the war would most probably be finished by the end of the year according to Eisenhower, the Germans are now fighting on 3 fronts with a major disaster in the East and with the Allied air superiority, Germans have no longer any chance to resist very long, the Luftwaffe having just been put out of business moreover oil and metal were running short for Germany 2/ battle of Russia the front is now collapsing, 50% of the German forces being probably now pinched in France and Italy, the Eastern front has therefore been weakened, Minsk has just been re-occupied by the Red Army 3/ battle of France 3 phases have been achieved 1) assault on the beaches 2) beachheads firmly established and 3) the port of Cherbourg has been captured now phase 4 is going to start: drive into the vital parts of the Germans in France the tough and arrogant Rommel was reported to have taken personal command of the Nazi troops in Normandy, Montgomery is going to hit Rommel for another six, the key of the battle is Caen, the Germans seem to be in a considerable turmoil with communication lines in a very sticky state after Allied air attacks and they could well have to face another landing on French, Belgium or Dutch coasts biography of Montgomery: eccentric (his regular bedtime is 9 pm!), unorthodox, picturesque, Monty is the military idol of his country (see cover) 4) capture of Cherbourg and its rehabilitation by the Seabees and Army engineers 5) the winged robot bombs (V1) over London 6) battle of Italy the Germans are retreating further and further; Ancona, Firenze and Piombino have by now been occupied 7) battle of China only here could the Japs gain some progress along the Canton-Hankou railroad threatening US air bases 8) battle of the Pacific conquest of Saipan, one of the bloodiest battles in US military annals, goes on and MacArthur is approaching the Philippines Foreign news - underground movements in Europe are rising everywhere - Finnland remains so far at the side of Germany >> p. 34 caricatures of Mussolini, Himmler, Hitler, Mannerheim and Goering by Soviet caricaturists - execution of Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law - China has now started its 8th-year war against Japan since 1937 and despite US aid (Burma road, Chennault's air group) is still poorly equiped to face the Japanese forces (20 million of Chinese have died sind 1937) - chronics of the last 7 years of the war - biography of Chiang Kai-shek who had united Chinese resistance even together with his old rivals Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai - the V1 and V2 as a crude preview of world war III, the buzz bomb = V1 invented by Hermann Oberth, professor of the Berlin university in 1920 (the moon professor) however the V1 is not a rocket (it cannot soar above stratosphere) but a jet-propelled bomb remaining within range of enemy flak and planes - the problem of racism and discrimination among the US troops 664'000 negroes with 5000 black officiers are integrated in the US army >> excellent report over the news reel of that time with particularly interesting details
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