A difficult birth -- Overseas beginnings -- Washington vs. London -- The Supreme Command -- Shaef's new missions -- Shrivenham and Manchester -- Staffs for Germany -- U.S. policy emergent -- Tripartite agreements -- The Rhineland campaign, 1944 -- Getting ready for "the day" -- The Rhineland campaign, 1945 -- After Yalta -- Eclipse -- The victory sealed -- Germany in defeat -- Zone and sector -- The occupation troops -- Potsdam Germany -- The first freedom -- Reckonings with the past -- The turning point -- Winter Neither an end or a beginning -- Conclusion.