At that point, however, Patton was starting to get very concerned about a possible German attack in the First Army’s area. Despite Patton’s carefully cultivated public image as the hell-for-leather cavalryman, he in fact valued precise and methodical staff work.
I can say that I have seen most of them, but I can only judge them on who I am as well as anyone else. He wrote in his diary that day, “We’ll be in a position to meet whatever happens.”On December 10 Patton’s XX and XII Corps forced crossings of the Saar River to secure jumping-off positions for the coming offensive. Battle of the Bulge is a 1965 American widescreen epic war film produced in Spain, directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, and Charles Bronson.The feature was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and exhibited in 70 mm Cinerama.
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Bradley told Patton to meet him and Eisenhower at Verdun at the same hour the next day.By midnight, one combat command of the 4th Armored Division had started to move north toward Longwy. Of all the German divisions facing First Army, all but one were in front of VIII Corps.Patton decided to continue the preparations to launch his Saar attack on December 19, but he also alerted his staff to start developing generalized contingency plans to deal with any threat from the north. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked itemsThe lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable).Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag.See details for additional description.This above average war flick it a rousing flag waver and pot poiler that has only tinges of the cynicism that come to dominate war films in the late 60's, '70 and 80's. At dawn on December 19 the remainder of 4th Armored started moving north and the 80th Infantry started moving toward Luxembourg City.Though they were helped by truck companies provided by the 12th Army Group, the logistical feats accomplished by the Third Army over the next few days would prove nothing short of phenomenal. Vith line under the operational control of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group. Almost simultaneously, Middleton chose Bastogne as the center of the VIII Corps defense. Watching the indicators develop on the map, Eisenhower responded, “That’s no spoiling attack.”By evening the Germans had pushed a huge salient into VIII Corps’ sector, and Bradley was starting to worry. Throughout the night the Third Army staff worked feverishly on plans to turn the army ninety degrees. Lt.“Brad, I’ve got a bridgehead across the Saar. I also didnt like the US guys using German anti tank weapons, as well displaying Army troops look like candy ass lazy fools no less under Bronson! The only thing they got correct was the location, the dates and the fact that there were Americans and Germans involved.I own at least 80% of US and UK made WWII films I have more then a few 400 disk Changers to house some of them. He is the true face of battle, a true "war lover". The director got overly creative in my view. They aren’t made that way. Not as a Nazi, but as a man obsessed with staying in uniform as long as possible. It's not the best, not the worst. Almost simultaneously, Middleton chose Bastogne as the center of the VIII Corps defense. Eisenhower also wanted to attack from the north, but he understood that the immediate task was to contain the German main effort. He argued: “The Germans will have to commit all their reserves to maintain this drive. But the enemy must never be allowed to cross the Meuse. The DVD also allows me to freeze and access favorite parts of the movie.Very well done. In order of priority they were:After assigning a code name to each axis, Patton left at 9:15 a.m. for the Verdun meeting. Nonetheless, Patton had the 10th moving within an hour. Patton initially objected to weakening his own attack. He laid out the following facts:Koch also told Patton that he had identified nine German divisions opposite VIII Corps.
Later that day Patton wrote in his diary, “We now have 108 battalions of corps and army artillery supporting this attack—in other words, 1,296 guns of 105 or bigger. From that point on, however, Bradley mostly remained in his headquarters and interfered with Patton as little as possible.Driving to Arlon to meet with Middleton later that day, Patton confirmed that the VIII Corps divisions were in no condition to counterattack the Germans.
Eisenhower, meanwhile, was the only other senior Allied commander who clearly saw early on that the Allies could turn the German attack to their own advantage. I don’t see how the Boche can take this much artillery.”Writing after the war, Patton’s aide Col. Charles R. Codman tried to put his commander’s performance in perspective: “To disengage three divisions actually in combat and launch them over more than a hundred miles of icy roads straight into the heart of a major attack of unprecedented violence presented problems which few commanders would have undertaken to resolve in that length of time.”But Patton knew where the real credit belonged; he wrote,“It is noteworthy that all the operations, including plans for attack executed on the 22nd of December, were done by personal conference or by telephone, and that the highly complicated road and supply movements were only made possible by the old and very experienced General Staff of the Third Army and the high discipline and devotion to duty of all the units involved.”Edmund Jennings Randolph, governor of Virginia and first U.S. attorney general.Camillo di Cavour, helped bring about the unification of Italy under the House of Saxony.Leo Fender, inventor of the first mass-produced electric guitar.George W. Crockett, first African-American lawyer with the U.S. Department of Labor.Jimmy Dean, singer, actor, TV host and businessman.Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer whose Cosworth DFV (Double Four Valve) engine revolutionized Formula One racing.Patti Austin, Grammy Award-winning singer and actress ("Real Me").HistoryNet.com is brought to you by Historynet LLC, the world's largest publisher of history magazines.