PHANTOM FORCE
BRITISH SECOND ARMY
_~,„ n LONDON. March 13. Field-Marshal Montgomery's British Second Army has become the, phantom force of the Western Front Everyone is asking its whereabouts and what its future role may be says the British United Press correspondent with the British forces.
, "I have been vsiiting some \inits and found them ready for the word of command to begin the, next battles which everyone hopes will be the final blow against Rundstedt's last ditches" he says. " 'We expect to be in at the death blow against the Hun on the other side of the Rhine,' declared men of the Second Army, which now claims to be the most mobile fighting force on the Western Front, following recent lightning switches, such as the rush into the Ardennes and the support given the Canadian First Army by some Second Army divisions. "The Second Army's artillery is of terrific strength. Montgomery will be able to call on the biggest gun barrage ever when the time is ripe to give the Wehrmacht the mightiest load of metal it has ever received. Gunners said that 'it ought to put paid to the last wavering Nazis who doubt whether they have lost the war or not'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1945, Page 7
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