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the »ervice.**waridomTh* Washington Merry-Go-RoundUrges Probe of Bulge BattleBy Drew Pearson(Col. It. a. Allen, flow on active service)Washington—If Congress is really interesting in investigating military efficiency rather than In political recrimination, it will probe the disastrous Battle of the Bulge os well as Pearl Harbor.Casualties at Pearl Harbor were only around. 3,000. But casualties in the Battle of the Bulge totalled around 60.000. And just as Pearl Harbor set us back in the Pacific, so the Battle of .the Bulge delayed victory in Europe. General Eisenhower had hoped to finish Germany in the winter, possably by Christmas, but disastrous, overwhelming losses during the first two weeks of the Ardennes offensive helped drag out the war.How many extra American lives were lest as a result of the spurt given to German hopes is not known. But what is known is that U. S. supply officers immediately placed huge orders lor more tanks, more artillery, more of almost everything as a result of the heavy supply losses in the Bulge. That is one reason why acres and acres of surplus supplies are scattered over the country today.What never leaked out at the time or the battle is that 20,000 U. S. infantry' troops were flownof the 101st Airborne, was in Washington. with his family. He has now been promoted to be head of West Point.)KcRe-l—_ : . i_ l a j.l _ tt.. j r*. _ . . .. i . _Another German opposed to the Belgian Bulge campaign was the man gene/ally credited with master-minding it—Field Marshal Kurt von Rundstedt.* Last December, American correspondents cabled accounts of how Von Runstedt had planned and led the Ardennes attack. But when interviewers asked him about the Belgian Bulge, he gruffly replied:“Do not connect me with that operation. That was Modei.”Von Rundstedt war referring to Field Marshal General Walther von Model, his colleague on the Western front, who had been strong for Hitler's plan to catch the American army off-base.Despite the opposition of regular German army officers. Hitler guessed shrewdly in picking the time and place for his attack. Tragic inside fact, however, is that U. S. forces would not have been caught napping if the advice of two War department colonels in Washington i had been taken; also the adYice of the assistant secretary of war, John McCIoy.Mr. McCIoy, looking at the map of the Western front several dayspor.hasWaxitocehconvisisetsendirtgarriteass*perdiv;evevfdere.theenc• a.me:theproingmehigM3IKaspeSts
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Emporia Gazette
Emporia, Kansas, US
Mon, Sep 24, 1945
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