What Eisenhower Said When Patton Crossed the Rhine

On March 22nd, 1945, at Twelfth Army Group headquarters in Luxembourg, the phones were ringing almost nonstop. Staff officers were relaying artillery reports, bridge updates, and weather over the Rhine. Then a call came in from the south. Omar Bradley picked it up, expecting another routine update. Instead, he heard George Patton telling him that Third Army was already across the Rhine near the town of Oppenheim, and that he wanted that fact to be made public before Bernard Montgomery’s planned crossing further north. At that same moment, British and American units in the north were still preparing a large, carefully organised assault called Operation Plunder. Patton’s move had jumped the schedule. It put Eisenhower in a difficult position: he now had to decide how to talk about the Rhine crossings without turning them into a public contest between his own commanders or a source of friction inside the alliance.

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