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Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's

Own Story Of The War In Europe

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Ja the Inte - summer. SHARE began moving, from. Gronville, its Initial toention, I desired to find a suitable spot well East of Paris in ader, te, avold the congested metropolitan area in telns to the front. However, beentine of the location of intln lines of skand But they coukl inve been heart

Communications and the lack of by all the men who worked so

existing faciles in the nreas hard during those lieetle weeks fo in the entire operation. We did from the Shine to the German East of Paris, the stuff WBR

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almost H.K:$10.00 see But the front got every pol- not get our bridgehead but our border,

immestiately [torced,. originally, ไป Accept 11.K.$30,09 | sible pound of ammunition, gazenes hd been carried well out touched the operations that final-Versailles as the most suitable -

ly binught about the reduction of soot from which to opernțe, 11.K.$72.00 blue, food, clothing, and supplies. } to defend the. Antwerp buze,

forwardi Regardless, however, of the ex- The propress of the battle grip-

command Atchen, fate of the gateways to established traordiones furts of the sumptyped the attention of everyone in Germany, The efly was stub-post just outside. Reims, from

alem, this

remained our mat the theatre.

We were ontle-bornly and deverly defended but which point I could easily rench acute difficulty. All along the ately prudel of our airborne units Collins, with his VII Corps, chimny portion of the front, even ou front ery was for more goso- but the interest in that battle had ried out the attack so skillfully days when dying was hupassible.

During the three months be on January 4, 1048, to Belly, and are amunition. Every its 100ts in something deeper thun that by October 13 he had sut-

one of our spearheads could have

We felt it would prove | rounded the garrison, und entered ainuing September 3,. I spent a pride. wife of Dr. it. K. W Yang, farther and faster,then und could succeed in establistúng re-ly forced back into his final The front was constantly broaden | ful of the lieutenant. Moreover,

they whether Ur HOR

the Germants the city. The enemy was steadi- grent portion of my time in travel, would be less inclined to be fear- actually did. I believed believe now that on Palton's front newed and effective resistance--on stronghold, a missive building in jug and distances getting was possible that my example

were the city of Metz could have been the battle's outcome we would the centre of the eity. This was greater, so that every visit was might encourage officers to gok captured. Nevertheless, sve fusk | form an estimate of the severity restured by the simple expedient line-consuming, Nevertheless, information from a comrade- to supply ench force for its busie of the lighting silli ahent of on

In any of drugging 156-mm. "Long Ton" they were valuable and always ship with their men. and for baste missions | A Hinstons

general impression jers Up rifler up to point-blank range worth the cost in time and effort event pursuri the practice mly The Kuomintang govern-

that the battle was really a full-within 200 yards of the building 13 adbering to this practice, throughout the war, and no alk On our right we connected us out attempt to hegu, immeriste--and methodiently blowing the could visit commanders in their with a soldier or top of soldiers ment in Nanking in the last

drive into the. heart t

walls to bits. After a few fwn headquarters, keep personal was ever proftless for me. days of the Generalissimo's near Dion with Patch's advane-ly, a

shes hud plerced the touch with problems as they arose, All these visits were, in addi- ing forces on September 11. Just Germany. This gave a krept aid- these personal regime resembles

23 lux after the iniling ed interest to a battle in whies building from end to end the Ger- and, above all, gain a feel of the tion, the occasion for serintis dis- nothing

a commander surrendered on troops. Two months inter, as win-cussion of problems, involving much

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m Southern France.

Frun that the rivrumstances were usually

replacements, October 21, with the rueful ab- ter approached, the winding roads particularly Inbled man who jumperi on

thing runstte. moment of word the only

When, in spite of herole, effort, sarvation, "When the Americars leading into my little camp at multion, clothing, and equipment his borse and dashed off in standing in the way of the ample

of all ar forces South the airborne forces and their sup-start supply

using 155% as sniper Reims at times, became impurs- for winter weather and future all directions.

repair of the porting ground forces were stop. We sath Devers Sixth wed down for three hours while of course, constantly working o of Metz was the

One afternoon I was bog-plus, Stafts of all echelons, are, the South Bleak, cold Nanking has always leading up the Rhone perd in tele tracks, we had ample

opera Conni

ani waiting for

tractor to pull mythese matters and, according to been covered by a fog of Valley. As a result of the June- evidence that much bitter enm-Army Genus becaine

The and came under my command an car out of a ditch. This con- the manuals, all of the nevils of ruinours produced by franticon with Patch's forces, a coor-paigning was still to come.

British 1st Airborne Division, in 1 September 15. The continuous pelled me to rejoin the main troops are automatically supplied dérable number of Germans were consultations and acrid dis-

South Western France. Ese van. fought one of the most front under control of SHAEF) headquarters Trapped

at Versailles and through the staff systems. Noth- from that time on travel becane ing. However, can tuke: the place agreements. The buttered

These Tegan to give themselves galiant actions of the wor, and now extended from the Mellter- Kuomintang is straining in up by dridets except in one - Its sturdiness materially assisted ranean in the South to the mouth more diffcul, except when flying of direct contact between com- maniters and this is far more stance, when 2,000 Germaus str the twu American divisions be of the Rlune, hundreds of miles conditions were good. foll directions: continued

senior doen At times I received adviceuable when the hind it, and the supporting ground to the North. resistance, negotiations rendered in a single body.

from friends, urging me to give the travelling, Instead of sitting In his beadquarters and waiting to troops visits foreign through

curtas powers,

They correctly stated that, so him with their problems.

for subordinates to come back to direct negotiations with the

as the use of men were concern- Communists and flight. The

erl. I could never speak, person-

Morale of the combat troops stnart money has all been bei

ally, to more than a ty percent had always to be carefully watch- thated. The capacity of soldiers for direct negotiations,

age. They argued, therefore, begin as som as Generalis-

I was merely wearing myself out, absorbing punishinent and endur Is almost. Inex without accomplishing anything ng privations sino Chiang Kai-shek in per.

signideant, so for as the whole haustible so long as they believe suaded to resign. which Is

Amy was concerned. With us they are getting a squars deal. expected momentarily.

Jdid not purcе. In the first place that their commanders are look- I felt that through constant talking out for them, and that their ing to entisled men I gained ac-own accomplishments are under- Any In- curate impressions of their state stood and appreciated, of mind, 1 talked

tination that they are the victims them about anything and everything: fave of unfair treatment understand- rite question of nine was to in-ably arouses their anger and re- quire whether

the the particular sentient,

feeling can squad or platoon had Agured out sweep through a command, Ke any new trick or gadget for use are troops complained to me that

wlidnre.

Once, in Africa, frants in infantry fighting. I would tulk about anything so long as they could uet no chocolate bara could get the soldier to talk to or anything to sisuke, when they me in return.

knew that these were plentifully

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On the extreme left the attack against Arnhem went off as plan- nett on the seventeenth. Thres airborne divisions dropped, in column, from North to South. The Northernmust he was the British 1st Airborne

Division. while further Southward were the American 2nd and 101st Autorne Divisions. The attack began well and unquestionably would have been successful (except for the ins- tervention of bad weather. This prevented the adequate reinforces ment of the Northern spearhead and resulted finidly in the deri- mation of the British turborne atvision and only a partial success

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I knew, of course, that news issued to the Services of Supply. fu visit with even a few men in queried the local unit comman- a division wanid soon sprend der, who said he had requisitioned hroughout the unit. This, I felt, these things time and again, only would encourage inen to talk to to be told that transport, war their superiore, and this habit, available to bring them to the believe, promotes efficiency. There front.

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The pugnacious Generalts- simo has been virtually the only mun in Nanking whose face is set stubbornly in the direction of continued resist. ance. Although others talk about it, they recognise the utter hopelessness of the position within the coalition Kuomintang's military situa-government which may en- tion. In Central China,able them to slow down guarding the Northern ap-China's swing to the left and proaches and Blanks of Nan- conserve a base for an even- king, the Kuomintang has tual comeback attempt. This under two hundred thousand group would also like to have troops many of thêm second foreign help in its negotin- rate to battle against up-tions with the Communists wards of four hundred fifty and has tried to persuade the

is, among the mass of individuals merely telephonod to the rear thousand victorious Com-Big Four to serve as a go-

curry the rilles in war, and directed that unth every for munist troops. Best inform-between in bargaining with

extot mamount of ingenuity and ward airfield and Front-line unit Some of

Inilutive. If men can naturally was gelling its share of these ed military sources predict the Communists.

and without restraint talk to items there would not be another that the Communists who the members of this direct-

their officers. Die products of their piece of candy or a cigaretta, oy spent the last two weeks of negotiations group preserve

esourcefulness become available sugar issued to anyone in the sup

In a surprisingly 1948 regrouping and re- the forlorn hope that the

to all. Moreover, out of the habit ply services. grows mutual confidence, a feels short time I received a hoppy organising could, with a two- Communists will agree to a

ing of partnership that is the esport from the front that their re- week offensive, reach the division of the country, with

of esprit de corps. Anquisitions were being promptly Yangtse River which curves the Kuomintang allowed to

fearful of its officers is filled. Nanking lu Around

the continue to dominate South

never as good as one that trusts One of these distressing affairs and ponades in its leaders. developed in the fall of 1944, Thé North. Within another two China.....

There is an old expression; two-tems-in-shariest-supply on weeks they could probably In order to enable them to

"the nakedness of the battlefieki," the front seemed to be gasoline cross the river and surround

Initiate peace feelers, this

It is descriptive and full of mean- and clgarettes. A trite report the capital. Few of Nan-group has been busy greas

ing for anyone who has serà came out, that in Parls there was king's inhabitants have any

a flourishing black market in botti Except for unusual-con- buttle. ing the skids- for the Gen-

centration of tactical activity, these articles, conducted by men confidence in the military eralissimo, who stands in the

such as at n river crossing or an at the 90s. We promptly put ability of the troops which way of Kuomintang-Com-

amphibious assault, the feeling group of inspectors on the job have straggled through to munist parleys. They have

that pervades the forward areas and uncovered all the sordid facts. take up defensive positions been trying to convince the

is, loneliness, There is little to That some men should give way on the South bank of the Gimo that unless he leaves

be seen: friend and for, as well to the extraordinary tamplations as the engines of war, seem to of the fabulous prices offered for Yangtse.

the scene, taking with him'

disappear from sight when troops food and cigarettes was to be ex- The Kuomintang's right his determination to "fight to forces of the Twenty-first Army Devers' forces include the U.S., are deployed for a fight. Lots of pected. But in this case it op- wing leaders led by Chen Li- the last" they will not be Group, to take and hold import- Seventh Army under Lieutenant control and. cohesion are easy, peared that practically an entire fu. the leader of the "CC able to save anything from ant areas. But the division itself General Patch, and the French because each man feels himself unit had organised itself into an suffered badly; only some 2,400 | First Army under General de so much alone, and each is prey efficient gang of raclooteers and Clique" and called "The the debris of the battered succeeded in withdrawing across Laitre de Tassigny, previously to the human fear and terror that was selling these articles in truck Himmler of China", has at- Kuomintang. They have told the river to safety.

Even so, the under Patch's operational control, to move or show himself may re- and carload lots,

Here is blackness of the crime consisted tempted desperately to get the Gimo that if he resigns

It was now vital to avoid any Bradley's army group comprised sult in instant dinth. foreign intervention to they will work against the further delay in the capture of the First, Third and the newly, where confidence in leaders, more in the rebbery of the front

Army Montgo-organised Ninth

under feeling of comradeship with and lines than it did in the value of mediale between the Kuo- Communists from within a Antwerp's upproaches,

the litefts. Lieutenant General William H. trust in them, pays off.

I was thoroughly mintang and the Commun-coalition and then, when the mery's forces were, at the mo-

ment.

badly scattered. His front, Simpson. Montgomery still had My own direct efforts could do angry. ists. Chen Li-fu has hoped time is ripe for a counter-in an irregular salient, reached to Dempsey's British Second Army little in this direction. But I that foreign mediation would revolution, they will call him the lower Rhine. He had to con- and

First knew that if men realised they To Be Continued Airborne could talk to the brass" they stall off the victory of the back. They also point out centrate a sizable force in the Army. Communist forces for a year that it is advisable to nego- Scheldt Estuary and still provide Army, temporarily assigned to or so during which time the tinte before the main Cam-invasion some of the kin, was directly subordinate to

poris holding out along the SHAEF. Kuomintang could consolid-munist forces have crossed

coast. To insure him opportunity. In October we learnedt ate its hold in South China. the Yangtse River into South' concentrate for the Scheldt Leigh-Mallory was needed in un

it clear | China.

operation

two other theatre of war. Airm He has also made

Although World'

divisions, the that he hopes that

to American

7th reluctant, to lose him, our organi The Gimo's refusal

Armoured, commanded by Major sallon had, by that time, definite War III will come soon so budge has presented a for

General Lindsay McD. Sylvester, ly crystallised and teamwork hai obstacle that the Kuomintang will be midable

because, and the 104th, commanded by been perfected to a point that I rescued as an ally of the constitutionally and in fact Major General Terry Allen, a approved the transfer. He was thereafter in ал anti-Soviet forces. However, power is in his hands and no veteran of the Tunisian and Sleil-killed shortly

airplane accident, and thus pase- none of the foreign powers one can push him out unless lan campaigns.

The American First Army, at ed one of thè inirepid und gällunt are willing to serve as a pro-he agrees. He himself is an

the end of its brilliant, march Agures of World War 11. with a tre- tective screen for the beaten obstinate man Kuomintang, and Chen Li-mendous serise of his mission fu's political machine which to save China". At the

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tang is fast disappearing.unpredictable. Chen Li-fu was hight on the In order to convince the list of "war criminals" pro- Gimo of the necessity for re claimed by the Communists signation, urgent messages and is, after Chiang Kai-shek were dispatched asking the the man most hated by the principal remaining millthry Communists. Many of His commanders, and warlords to past admirers are now busily hosten to Nanking for con- deserting his sinking ship. sultations. Yen Hsi-chan

The group which his warlord of basciged Taiyuah. KONG?

emerged as dominant at the Lu Han of Yunnan and the year's end in Nanking is that others who have been locked around Vice-President in a series of conferences, Tsung-jen which favours naturally prefer a political ditching the Generalissimo deal with and opening up direct nego- in which the itiations. This group hopes to hold a that by negotiating with the power-to Communisté they may be in the cov able to get at least a junior are certa

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