General Eisenhower, who knows the value of a soldier's pride in his outfit, had started a new kind of deal. U.S. divisions in Normandy were named almost as soon as they were "compromised" (i.e., identified) by the Germans. By last week, Eisenhower's censors had also released the names of most of the top commanders in Lieut. General Omar Bradley's U.S. First Army. General Bradley's Army includes the V Corps, under Major General Leonard T. ("General Gee") Gerow, 1943 commander of U.S. ground forces in Britain, and the VII Corps, under crisp, enthusiastic Major General Joseph Lawton Collins, former commander...
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