THIS IS IT IN EUROPE

SEELY, Lt. Comdr. C. S.

This Is It In Europe By Lt. Comdr. C. S. SEELY THIS, in my opinion, is "it." The Red Army is now going all-out to take Berlin and undoubtedly will do so during the present drive. The Nazis...

...And, of course, there certainly is now little or no reason for believing that we may make such a blunder...
...There can hardly be any doubt hat many Nazi fanatics will fight to the death in their mountain fast-lesses...
...Of course they can prolong the struggle somewhat, but they cannot take many more of our lives—unless we make some huge and unpardonable, blunder...
...They are playing for time to prepare their hide-outs...
...The Nazis are done for and they certainly must know it...
...Our action in Europe from now on probably will be mainly mopping up operations, which should not necessitate heavy casualties...
...Many American boys were killed in these utterly useless attacks...
...11, 1918--after the Armistice had been signed and we knew that it had been signed—we launched all-out attacks on strongly held German positions for apparently no reason whatever except an overweening desire for "heroics...
...In many cases all we need do is "wait out" the defeated and trapped enemy...
...I believe their nal stand will be made in the Tyrol mountains, probably not far from Innsbruck...
...The opinions and assertions expressed above are the private ones of the writer and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Navy Department or the naval service at large...
...A more stupid lot of nonsense cannot be imagined...
...Munich, or any other large city now in their hands, as it has been clearly demonstrated to them that they cannot hold large cities against determined attacks...
...But I mention this at this time because we did make a great, disastrous blunder at the end of the last war...
...On Nov...
...We must avoid "heroics" this time...
...mainly in western Austria and northern Italy...
...It seems reasonably clear now that they will not make a serious attempt to hold Prague...
...The Nazis probably will hold out as long as possible, fighting rear-guard actions to gain time to prepare their final hide-outs, and then make a mad dash southward to try to escape before a junction of the American and Rus-sian armies cuts them off...

Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 18


 
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