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By this week complete tactical success was in sight. Given a day or two of clear skies, Brigadier General Gordon P. Saville's 12th Tactical Air Command could get in its licks at the Rhine bridges, perhaps complete the local pattern of encirclement.
*Modernized, the fortress is still a good example of the defense-in-depth theories of the famed military architect, Marquis Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban, who built it in 1686.
*Nom de guerre of Jacques Leclerc de Hauteclocque.