Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

“We had to revert to our original pre-Dog Day [D day] plan of opening Antwerp before we could deploy in adequate strength in the North,” says Eisenhower. Another problem that arose subsequent to the breakthrough beyond Paris was the establishment of a firm front in southern and southwest France to prevent a large number of enemy troops from concentrating and harassing operations against the Allied right flank. The cheapest protection was to join Devers’s left flank as it came out of the Rhone Valley, reducing German strength “by the amount that we could capture behind the two forces.” However, “although joining hands with Devers was obviously the most desirable thing to do, the need for all maintenance resources on the northern flank in exploitation immobilized for