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C EISENHOWER'S BRILLIANT PLANNING When the inside story of General Eisenhower's European war var planning planning planning plan plan- ning is finally told the American public will be amazed at some of the things he has put across Here is isI I part of the story Long before D day Eisenhower I had timed every operation down to the last minute The most important important im im- irn- irn maneuver was to break breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough through the Germans' Germans Atlantic walland wall vall walland and wedge an opening through which other troops could pour The German High Command considered I this vial all impregnable Yet Eisenhower's Eisenhower's Eisen Eisen- howers hower's driving demand for offense I was such that he allotted his men menI exactly 45 minutes to get through I He had each move so carefully timed and planned that tha t after 45 I minutes other ships supplies men menI j I would be piling up on the beach I would have no place to go unless i I the through break-through was accomplished I in the time allotted I Before the invasion a fullI full- full I scale replica of German was vas constructed in England England England Eng Eng- land built from aerial photo photo- graphs And day after day American troops rehearsed their break through The best time they were able to make in these rehearsals however was one hour and 30 minutes But Cut when D day finally came thanks to General Eisenhower's dynamic dynamic dynamic dy dy- dy- dy planning they made it not in 45 but in 35 minutes But with his advance into France timed to the hour and day Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisenhower Eisen Eisen- hower after the original breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough break break- through ran into difficulty Gen Omar Bradley kept right on schedule in penetrating south into Normandy And Maj Gen Joe Collins was on schedule or ahead of it in penetrating Cherbourg In fact they had developed in cooperation cooperation cooperation tion with Eisenhower a new type of advance Instead of advancing so many miles and then waiting for supplies to come up as at the slow- slow moving Anzio beachhead they developed developed developed de de- de- de the tactic of barging ahead regardless of supplies Thus General Collins surprised the Nazis and the world ignoring Nazi machine-gun machine nests forgetting about supplies and forging right into Cherbourg Cherbourg Cher Cher- Cherbourg bourg before its defenders knew what was u r Trouble with Monty Eisenhower's chief trouble however however however how how- ever was with General Montgomery ery whom Winston Churchill once described as magnificent in defeat defeat de de- defeat de- de feat insufferable in victory General Montgomery had been given Caen as his objective But days passed and nothing happened The offensive minded Eisenhower kept hammering at Montgomery urging an advance But nothing hap hap- Actually Montgomery had just as high a rank as Eisenhower had seen many more battles so Eisenhower was in no position to get too rough Finally Air Intelligence showed that German resistance behind the Allied lines was a mere shell He could te tell from air observation that the Nazis were able to bring up only about 25 per cent of their needed supplies Their reinforcements reinforcements reinforce reinforce- reinforcements ments had to hide in the daytime advance only at night Most of the bridges across the Seine were down So Eisenhower tired of waiting for Montgomery and already behind schedule gave the order for General General General Gen Gen- eral Bradley to ignore Montgomery ery and break through the Nazi lines to the south a i DEMOBILIZING OLDER MEN MENi War department officials are under un un- der den der heavy pressure to make one very important change in the army's 1 plan for demobilization The demobilization plan did not consider servicemen's age However However However How How- ever ever men overseas particularly I I those in the European theater have been angrily pointing out that the British demobilization program gives each man a specific number of points for age thus assures older older old old- er men a better break The army said it had drafted older men reluctantly reluctantly re because most were heads I of families The GIs now point out that it would be equally logical to discharge these older men the earliest since they are needed among by their families Veterans' Veterans administration studies reveal that the cost of keeping older men in uniform is greater than for younger men since the army pays out large sums for dependency Allotments Allotments Al Al- have proved meager and scarcely able to keep families to to- gether Yet under the tion plan as it stands now family heads would be among the last men to be released S w CAPITAL CHAFF C l I. I The danger of a new crime wave as a result of letting returning war heroes keep captured revolvers and machine guns is worrying officials S I. I Publisher Joe Pa Patterson erson wasn't kidding when he explained that N New York the ew News was dropping the Presidential Battle Page WaSS because of libel He faces a libel suit CIOs CIO's Beannie Baldwin from The GOP accused Baldwin of drawing salary from the a gov government while working with the CIO CIa and Patterson Patter Patter- son printed it |