[henkster]

Some information on Jacob Devers as the "red-headed step child of the ETO." The excerpts below are from "Riviera to the Rhine," the volume of the Official History dealing with Devers' 6th Army Group. This was the last volume of combat operations published in the Army's Official History of World War 2. All of the other ETO combat histories were published in the 1950s. Riviera to the Rhine was not published until 1991, long after all of the major participants had passed away. It is no doubt only because of the passage of time and deaths of Eisenhower and Bradley that this excerpt is as candid as it is, which is somewhat rare for an Official History. But it is further proof that Devers' command was a forgotten front. The entirety of this volume can be downloaded for free at

http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/007/7-10-1/CMH_Pub_7-10-1.pdf

I apologize in advance for the poor Photobucket editing.

[abb]

“miscellaneous supply problems.”

Interesting. Since we see newspaper headlines of the battles in “real time,” notice how almost all the ink is on the Northern part of the Western Front. Maybe that’s where all the correspondents were assigned.

[EternalVigilance]

Thanks for that.

I had read the whole book a while back, after seeing your links to it.

I tracked down the whole series of books, actually, and read most of them.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Wow. "My ego has more stars than yours." Ike had some strong personalities to direct, in Montgomery, Patton, Devers, etc. But that's to be expected: they were three-star generals!

In your opinion, was Eisenhower the best man for SHAEF?

[occamrzr06]

I apologize in advance for the poor Photobucket editing.

Thanks for sucking me into some more extensive reading!

I'm really enjoying the text.