Perhaps Lieut. General Omar Bradley's victory on the Cotentin peninsula last week was something more than the breaking of a stalemate. It may have been the opening break to the bigger battle that was in Ike Eisenhower's blueprint for destruction of the German in the west. Or, as war against the German goes in the west, it may have been only a breakout, destined to be stopped by a new line of resistance.
Whichever it was, by this week the American generals had plenty of cause for satisfaction. Their troops had broken out of the...
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