After that has been achieved, he planned to detail a few components to mop up the Ruhr then strike using Ninth, First, and Third Armies out of Kassel stopping at the Elbe River. Bradley intended to swing First Army west and his own Ninth Army south-north at a double envelopment which fulfills in Kassel’s area and will encircle the Ruhr. In precisely exactly the exact same moment, he ordered Patton to drive north toward Giessen, at which he was to link up with
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