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'Sorr3*. We can use only men who learned something useful Inthe service.”in IlMno Mrs. J ParlJame dom laTho Washington Merry-Go-RoundUrges Probe of Bulge BattleBy Drew Pearson(Col. It. 8. Allen, j\ov on. active terries)Washington—If Congress is really interesting in investigating military efficiency rather than In political recrimination, it will probe the disastrous Battle of the Bulge as well as Pearl Harbor.Casualties afc 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 otathe Bulge delayed victory in Europe. General Eisenhower had hoped to finish Germany in the winter, possably by Christmas, but disastrous, overwhelminglosses during the first two weeks of the Ardennes offensive helped drag out the war.How many extra American lives were lost 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 sup-I ply losses in the Bulge. That is one I reason why acres and acres of sur-* plus supplies are scattered over the country today.What never leaked out afc thetime or the battle is that 20,000 U.S. infantry troops were flown straight from the United States intoof the 501st Airborne, was in Washington with his family. He has now been promoted to be head of West Point.)KathReceiAnother 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, hegruffly replied:Miss poria, i has bee Wailuki ritory ceived :commaivision, set for( “For service“Do not connect me with that operation. That was Mode'-.Von Rundstedt war j:eferring 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 fnsjde fact, however, is that TJ. S. forces •would not have been caught napping if the advice of two War department colonels in Washington i had been taken; also the advice of the assistant secretary of war, John McCIoy.Mr. McCIoy, looking at the map of the Western front several days before the Germans launched theirdirectoi ganizat ritory c associaipersomdivisiorevery z vldlng creatioi theseencot ment the 3probl ing d me as high MariKay.speeStalSAILIN’
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Emporia Gazette
Emporia, Kansas, US
Mon, Sep 24, 1945
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