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I've been reading Jean Edward Smith's "Eisenhower in War and Peace", and he mentions that Courtney Hodges suffered a nervous breakdown while commanding the US First Army during the Battle of the Bulge and implied that Gen Hodges was nowhere to be found as the Germans mounted their offensive across Ardennes.
Oct 3, 2022 · Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges’s First U.S. Army, to which the 106th Infantry Division was now attached, had the broadest sector to cover—from Aachen to the southern border of Luxembourg, a distance of 120 miles. To the north was the Ninth U.S. Army (Simpson) while to the south was the Third (Patton).
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Nov 3, 2015 · Lt. General Courtney Hodges who was responsible for the section of the Allied lines where the Germans attacked apparently suffered a nervous breakdown during the fighting.
Dec 8, 2019 · First Army, a force consisting of six divisions, 250,000 men and commanded by General Courtney Hodges. Hodges was one of those World War II generals known as ‘Eisenhower’s Lieutenants,’ military figures like Mark Clark, Omar Bradley and George Patton, who rose to command the American Army in Europe in World War II.
Oct 28, 2010 · Bradley moved upstairs to command an all-US 12th Army Group; General Courtney Hodges took over 1st Army, and a new army came into existence to his right, the 3rd, under General George Patton. The established narrative of the campaign at this point is one of “pursuit.”. Patton driving deep–heading simultaneously west into Brittany and east ...
- Robert M. Citino
General Courtney Hicks Hodges (January 5, 1887 – January 16, 1966) was a decorated senior officer in the United States Army who commanded First U.S. Army in the Western European Campaign of World War II. Hodges was a notable "mustang" officer, rising from private to general. Born in Perry, Georgia, he began studies at the United States ...
Dec 26, 2019 · Before the Battle of the Bulge, Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Bernard Montgomery, and Courtney Hodges thought fellow general George S. Patton was a talented, eccentric, flamboyant, and sometimes ...
