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TOP SEC ET For SECRET SHAEF STAFF MESSAGE CONTROL INCOMING MESSAGE F.K TFKF X7/25 200 2012210A TOR 250225A IOE URCENT BUTCHER GAULT LEE FROL, : EXFOR TAC FROM F K MONTGOMERY TO : SHAEF MAIN PERSONAL FOR GENERAL EISENHOWER REF NO : M-394 N Enemy pressure is increasing on right flank First Axmy and Fifth Panzer Amy is infiltrating round the right flank VII Corps in the GINCY (??) area. I have ordered that 82nd Airborne Division is to withdraw from the VIELSALM salient and come back on to the general line GRANDSENIL - TROIS PONTS. I have ordered 51st Division to move from Ninth Army Reserve to First Army Reserve on 26 December. pr ACTION: GENERAL BULL INFORMATION: SGS GENERAL STRONG VGS DCS DCS ose as DCS CAO AIR SGS COOR IN 8578 25 Dec. 1944 0225A Ref No: DECLASSIFIED goe DOD DIR. 5200.9, SEPT. 27, 1958 NE BY RJS DATE 2/24/67 TOP SECRET COPY NO. 4 THE MAKING OF AN EXACT COPY OF THIS MESSAGE is FORBIDDEN