Show ap woj fal washington 0 0 EISEN HOWERS BRILLIANT PLANNING when the inside story of general Elsen Eisen howers european war planning Is finally filially told the american public will be amazed at some ot of the things he has put across here Is part of the story long before D day eisenhower Elsen hower had timed every operation down to a the last minute the most important maneuver was to break through the germans atlantic wall an and d wedge an opening through which other troops could pour the german high command considered this wall impre impregnable anable yet elsen howers bowers driving demand for or offense was such that he allotted his men exactly 43 45 minutes to get through he had bad each move so carefully timed and planned that after 45 minutes other ships supplies men would be piling up on the beach would have no place to go unless the abr breakthrough break at through was accomplished a e in the time allotted before the invasion a full foil scale replica of german fortifications was constructed in eng land built from aerial 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 when D day finally came thanks to general Elsen Eisen howers dynamic planning they made it not ot in 45 but in 35 minutes but with his advance into france timed to the hour and day elsen eisen hower after the 0 original r igi nal br breakthrough e sit ran into difficulty gen omar bradley kept right on schedule in penetrating r south into normandy and maj ben joe colllns collins was on schedule or ahead of it in penetrating cherbourg Cher bourg in tact fact they had developed in cooperation with eisenhower Elsen hower a new type of advance instead of advancing so many miles and then waiting tor for au supplies to come up as at the slow moving anzio beachhead they developed the tactic of barging ahead regardless of supplies thus general collins surprised the nazis and the world ignoring nazi machine gun nests forgetting about supplies and forging right into cher bourg before its defenders knew what was happening trouble with monty Elsen Eisen howers chief trouble however was with general montgomery whom winston churchill once described as magnificent in defeat insufferable in victory general montgomery had been given caen as his objective but days passed and nothing happened the offensive minded eisenhower Elsen hower kept hammering at montgomery urging an advance but nothing happened actually montgomery had just as high a rank as eisenhower Elsen hower had seen many more battles so eisenhower Elsen hower was in no position to get t too oo 00 rough finally air intelligence showed that german resistance behind the allied lines was a mere shell he could tell from air observation that the na nazis 2 is were able to ring bring up only about 25 per cent of their air needed supplies their rein reinforcements ace ments a had bad to hide in the daytime advance only at night most of the bridges bridge across acres the seine were down so eisenhower Elsen hower tired of wallin waiting 9 for montgomery and already behind schedule gave the order tor for general bradley to ignore montgomery ry and break through the nazi lines to the south DE MOBILIZING OLDER MEN war department officials are under heavy pressure to make one vm very important change tn in the ardys plan for demobilization the demobilization plan did not cons consider ider emens age however r men overseas particularly those in the european theater have been angrily pointing out that the britt british sh demobilization program gives each man a specific number of points for age thus assures older men a better break the army said it had dratted drafted older men reluctantly luct antly because most were heads of families the GIs now point out that it would be equally logical to discharge these older men among the earliest since they are needed by their families veterans administration studies reveal that the cost of keeping older men in uniform Is greater than tor for younger men since the army pays out large sums for depend dependency ene allotments lot ments have proved meager and scarcely able to keep camill families e together yet under the demobilization plan as it stands now family heads would be among the last men to be released CAPITAL CHAFF fl 41 the danger of a new crime wave as a result of letting returning war heroes b ar 0 keep captured revolvers and machine guns Is worrying officials it publisher joe patterson kidding when he explained that the new york news was dropping the presidential battle page because of libel albel he hd faces a libel suit from CIOs beannie baldwin the GOP accused baldwin of drawing a salary from the government while working with the CIO and patterson printed it |