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Show World War Facts Disclosed By Eisenhower Story 4 Just a few hours before the invasion of Europe, in the late war, General Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisen-hower was told by one of his top advisers that the air-borne operation which preseded the beachhead landings, would not work. The incident is recounted in the General's book, "Crusade in Europe," which has just been published. General Eisenhower reasoned that if he cancelled the air-borne operation, it would be impossible to proceed with the invasion plans. He decided to go on with the attack and when it succeeded, the top adviser immediately im-mediately extended congratulations. congratula-tions. Other incidents included in jthe General's account of his war operations are: (a) Twice during the campaign, Field Marshal Montgomery tried to become 'Supreme Ground Comander; (b) that Montgomery's estimate of jthe strategy of the invasion was fulfilled to the letter; and (c) that while Prime Minister Churchill argued against the invasion, in-vasion, once the decision was made, he threw his weight behind be-hind the proposal. It is noted that General Eisenhower Eisen-hower disposes of the argument that the American Armies were held back for political reasons while the Russians went into Berlin. At the time the decision was made, the Russians were only thirty miles away from the German capital and there was grave military doubt that the much-more-distant Allied troops could reach Berlin first. In addition, ad-dition, General Ike says that the American supply position was not sufficient to support such a thrust. The American General finds that a "live and let live" arrangement ar-rangement does not work with the Russians and he expresses a realization of the deep gulf between be-tween Western concepts and those in vogue in the East. This is illustrated in the Russian recipe rec-ipe for crossing mine fields. Marshal Zhukov told General Eisenhower that the Russians simply attacked as if the mines were not there and considered the losses to be no greater than I from concentrated machine-gun fire. i |