European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Germans give Frankfurt bound gis sues then plenty of Lead by Pat Mitchell stars and stripes staff writer with the 6th army div in March men of b co were fooled by the smiling germans and the proffered bottles of wine As their half tracks rolled through the Southern a burbs of Frankfurt toward the damaged Bridge Over the main the Lead second a Saloon track swayed gently and its passengers the War is Over for these p e o p 1 the Cobblestone roads were lined with German children and old the men said hello and the Young women smiled because that the Way of Young a sergeant reached Down from a heavy machine gun position and grabbed a bottle on the he opened it after sampling its and passed it around the then he turned to the platoon 2d it Richard East fran Lei ii aids wounded yanks nazis shoot Burn Down Home with 1st inf March 28 was no Fine for fraternizing with Trudy a 20year old the German who gave first Aid to wounded was shot Fry vengeful nazis who burned her she now lies in a yank Field her bed surrounded by gifts of Candy and capt Maxie of the told the Story of Trudys Battlefield nursing on March 24 while co of the 16th waa fighting the Savage Battle for Griesbach at the Northern end of the Remagen several yanks had been this girl was watching from the window the said she ran out to do what she with Shell splinters and Rifle and machine gun bullets flying Over the she bandaged the wounded and helped the infantrymen to improvise the platoon was forced to pull Back but hours later the town was they found the farmhouse Burn ing to the ground and the girl lying twisting in Zera City gives up by Telephone by Arthur Oakshott renter special correspondent with 7th army at Mann March opposite Ludwigshafen on the Rhine became the first City in Ttoe j world to be surrendered in a Tel Ephone Call when it capitulated to the american 44th inf americans were Clearing the Northern part of she great Rhine Industrial City Street by Street and House by and1 were entering the great waterworks when some soldiers heard a Telephone ringing in one of the an american answered and a voice in broken English asked for someone who could speak a German speaking i came to the phone and heard a nervous voice i am one of the City please dont shoot any As quiere Are no German soldiers in an american officer said Tell him to bring the burgomaster to Tow phone and1 a few minutes later the Burgo master repeated the statement on the phone and surrendered the the american officer instructed him to order that White flags be Hung within a few minutes flags made of bed tablecloths and feminine garments were hang ing from Vantage Points throughout the 99th div now East of Rhine with 1st March 22 maj Gen Walter layers 99th div has been fighting on the Eastern Bank of the Rhine since March 1st army captures Lela factory intact by Dan Regan stars and stripes staff writer april huge Leitt Home of the Lela was captured intact by the 1st employing the eight Story factory was manufacturing gun microscopes and other critical War material Only three Days before town of Wetzlar was captured by u Gen Courtney 63d div tankers unimpressed by Heidelberg by Byrne stars Ana stripes staff writer april Amer ican tank sitting on the tank in front of the University of Hei seemed rather unimpressed with its i heard a lot about that said s sgt Charles of miss it aint much to look is it it almost any College at Home could put the University of Heidelberg in its Back yet these austere buildings had been the Alma mater for the bulk of the German general staff offi cers and Many party the doughboy of the 63d who took the town after crossing the Neckar River 10th army div pushed around seemed better acquainted with Heidelberg As the Home of Good Beer than As a seat of learning and the setting for the operetta the student they we rent getting any of the shipping platform of one brewery was stacked with but a sign said off maps impound plane out of Gas and Road with 7th March it happens every Day to jeeps but it of who pilots an artillery never thought it would happen to his when he found himself running of he landed on the first stretch of Highway which might be near a s to Tio leaving the plane parked at the Edge of the he went for he returned to find that the maps had impounded tiie they explained that it was an army vehicle parked without a guard in an unguarded King thanks Monty March 27 King George i today sent Tele Grams of thanks to Gen Eisenhower and to Field marshal Montgomery on triumphant passage of the describing it As a military achievement of incalculable significance to the whole and where Are we lieutenant Persohn was thinking of the casualties when he into Frankfurt to help out c there one Block beyond the Ridge which task Force Lagrew took two hours ago its a big s sgt Dave of Law the squad big towns Are and the tracks rolled two blocks from the b co dismounted and began to work its Svay toward the sniper fire and Long Range machine gun fire forced them to hug Walls and go through Back the men started Over the Bridge and some didst get very flak batteries in the Hills North of the City were Able to observe the 100yardlong reinforced Storte Bridge was so badly cratered that tanks or wheeled vehicles  it col Byrd la of who nok the had three tanks on the Way Over when the germans detonated demolition two tanks were knocked out and the third forced to go Low and fast b co got crawling Low and moving a co followed and by dusk the Complete 9th army inf in had cleared about 10 then it was jerrys pitching 88 air bursting direct higher Plosive 105 stuff 120 mortar and 170 my they according to t sgt Sylvestia the heaviest concentration i have seen for a Long time at the Bridge and the Southern you dont pauses you run into Frankfurt across the you have to go slow when you come to or sidestep the twisted trolley there is a spare Light machine gun barrel on the and some cases of and ots of other important things that suddenly lost their importance when outpacing the airburst became a on the far Side of the eight feet from the safety of a a dead Joe lies shall across the somebody tossed a Blanket Over him and when new arrivals come running breath ing heavily under their Load of mortars and extra they take a Quick look at the Joa eight feet from life and Duck into the Bield ing to get their wind Back and think about germans Duisburg subs captured with match 30 a three German submarines were captured in the Duisburg Dock area their size and condition was not Gen Huebner crosses the Elbe maj Gen Clarence cd the v 1st and maj Gen commander of the 58th inf soviet with their Cross the Elbe River for a conference with the cd of the russian Xxxiv e co crosses Rhine then takes East continued from Page g minutes to three More min it was h the crash of artillery along the opposite Shore and softened to rumbling in the the boats were shoved Cal deep into the water before the men clambered started paddling As we were caught in the at the Tiller of our pvt Chester fiddled with the outboard it the men kept on it sputtered dad turns Jerry 1 to maps j he Velps by a staff writer with the 35th inf i april German father turned his Sori Over to the 35th he said his son was a deserter from the German the Soldier had been hiding at Home for almost a he came to the Pwen closure carrying a Blanket Roll and a Supply of the father walked off djs Tance Frohs the my stand sat Down and d company pursued Jerries right off situation by Ken stars and stripes staff March 28 de co of this armoured recon Naissance battalion is Well out in front after racing 90 Miles in a Little More than go but that about All the capt Herbert Zimmer of knows about his Holzhausen is somewhere in the Hess Nassau but just where Zimmerman cant Tell be cause Hes outrun his the company took out after the germans Early today and passed through five villages before Roach ing largest place the company has entered since ii left tiie District is mountainous and Many tie towns have steel smelters and railway there was a Large Mitt at Ober while at there was a Large rail Yard r and several in tact freight White flags Fly from1 at Tri Genstein the streets were f filed with Wallenfels was just a wide in the Road and Bottenhorn was Little Ait h o 1 Zoh a us e Zimmerman troopers were cheered As passed first Treyve been acclaimed since their race across there were Many poles and the streets out to Greet the the who is not a party according to his school teacher Holzhausen Popula Tara is about Tho town yielded 32 prisoners after the doughs fired Art i Volley into the Woods above the caught and hummed to a we pulled our puddles in and the boat veered then then straight in the James of West flashed signals to Tatarow Sci with a fluorescent As the boat headed across we were swallowed in the smoke screen Laid on the River Moon the doughboy it Stanley Battle commissioned from pfc Earl of pfc James of Pic George of arid pfc Noah of Clarks ins correspond ent Frank Cunniff hugged the Bot Tom and ducked the tracers outline boundaries on either Side came the hum of 55hp motors racing 25 Miles an hour through the then it cleared away and we could see the Moon and in the other boats the the boat headed the motor i was and we scraped the the tracers two machine guns outlined the crossing and the ripping noise of a burp gun answered their the doughs hopped out and headed toward the Dike 100 Yards from the Bank the yelled after them take it but no one turned to they a test on the past the cringing germans out of a Stone across the Flat on a dead they were headed Ernst when last 3d army discovers huge nazi Cache with 3d in april 7 Gold re 100 tons of Bullion vast amount of Art has been found in a Saltine by the 3d army besides Cha Booty included in French pounds i norwegian and Tesser amounts in turkish pounds and Spanish