European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The final phase from the Rhine to berlins continued from Page s to be face months exhaustive experiments were carried out in in streams with similar Banks and current Condi to determine which Landing Craft would be Best adapted to the the Lam and lev were chosen and transported by water and Road to the spot British and american naval forces were pc tilt up in Germany to Man the Craft the offensive began at 8 pm March 23 with a great artillery bar rage for an hours at 9 As soon As the barrage the crossing with the British i commando Brig leading off in an attack on which was Cap tured with Only 36 Dur ing the night the main attach went so successful was the operation that by the following prime minister win Ston Churchill and Field marshal sir Alan Brooke were Able to make a Brief tour of the Bridgehead on the East from that Point the task of expanding the Bridgehead for the breakout into the German heart land went steadily ahead with a constant Stream of reinforcements of men and Materiel pouring across the quickly constructed out of Remagen to the the 3d and 7th armies were proceeding with their the 1st pressing southward from the Remagen while the 3d and1 7th poured across the Rhine Between Wiesbaden and Mann the 3d had crossed the Rhine on the night of March before the main assault to the North had putting the 5th div on the East Bank at Oppenheim and expanding taking prisoners in Ttoe first 24 the 1st broke through Light enemy resistance on the Southern flank and in a rapid thrust by v corps overran Limburg and1 reached the main at the same the 3d army was Clear ing the main from Frankfurt to the additional Crossings were made by 3d army on the Rhine at Coppard and Braubach on March the Tahj crossed the Rhine at Worms and linked up with the 3d1 army South of Darm Stadt March the French were the last to establishing a Bridgehead at strik ing there Southeast Feo Stutt Gart and eventually Clearing the entire Rhine the Swiss von Rundstedt removes after the Crossings of the Field marshal Gerd von who Hod been removed from Hie command after the Allied successes in Normandy and reinstalled to conduct the ardennes again was from to be replaced by Field marshal Albert whose ask it was to Reform the beaten armies into a defensive of this period Eisenhower wrote within a week of the crossing of the Rhine the Allied spearheads were thrusting isolating corps and and cutting off one army from despair gripped the German forces As never and Hie disintegration the entire Western front developed already the task of exercising unified command Over German detachments wag becom ing almost an communications were breaking and reports filtered through so to fact Kesselring could never be what the position at any give it moment might by the time in formation had been received and instructions sent Back to the the Allied t Advance guards had probably pressed Forward 50 and the entire situation had been in Kesselring found himself increase singly unable to exercise any control Over the situation and on Page 1 6th army liberates gis on death March by Pat Mitchell stars and stripes staff writer with 6th army april a 150mile similar to the in famous death March made by american and philippine soldiers captured by the japanese on Cor was ended when 6th army div tanks liberated 800 i prisoners of taken prisoner during the Arden nes the doughs had been More than three Mont son the stopping Only when nazi transportation officials had pirated their forcing the americans to fill bomb craters and haul trestle the fed on sixth of a loaf of Black bread and one can of potato soup suffered from dysentery and had lost up to 80 pounds in caught in subzero the men told of seeing their comrades stumble and fall during Long forced to lie alongside the Road until Frozen to one one Day i buried 22 of my buddies who were too too tired and too cold to to col Albert of West whose armoured in Fantry liberated prisoners of War in North of As we entered the town the looking like walking Skele staggered out to meet they were and they 2d army div races 80 Miles in 3 Days cd army i v at Teuton Burger april 2 for therean Dahal Days in one knew where the hell the Bellini wheels division that one knew except the the germans the path of the irresistible armoured and the thousands of prisoners and slaves set free by the yank style the Security Blanket was lifted this underneath was the 2d 7ft Miles East of where they were some 80 hours agpfr79 closer to the division is 100 Miles front the Rhine and less than 195 irom Unter in Brig Whites tankers driven Southeast of the main line of their Advance to Batter their Way into Lippstadt and the Ruhr with steel when they joked the 3d 7 95th div attached to 9th 9sth inf dive last in the Siegfried opposite Saar Lufern As a unit the 3d is off the secret list and is disclosed As participating n the final to the Rhine As a to froth liberators of the 7th army Are cheered As they enter Dachau concentration setting prisoners photo Reich manpower note Draff Board drafted with 84th april 10 this should be the last word on the subject of scraping be during the German defense of across the Weser on the Road to the local draft Board was armed and thrown into the Battle m e to b or s surrendered in Weser Bridge demolished f destruction fails to halt 104th div by stars and stripes staff writer with 104th div East of Weser april 8 delayed the Jerries blew up the Bridge across the Weser River yesterday almost right in the face of it col Bill of but today doughs of his 413th regt of the Timber Wolf div Are across the Boyar wide obstacle and headed i1 it col William Summers the present Edito Finchie stars and the 413th entered this town yesterday at 1500 and five min utes later the Bridge went into the leaving a German tank and about 50 infantrymen trapped on the West by 1630 hours the fight inside the town was with the rounded up and the tank aban company is 3d in maj George of hit the River Bank and found that although  Advance he could still kill germans the Ger mans on the other Side were clash h co loses 11 tanks but d paves play m 1 my 1 own by Ken stars and stripes staff writer this Little town of the outskirts of has been overlooked by the Reading Public in the Rush of but to Hast 136611 forgot Teri by h co 3d div caught up with the German army after Chang it nearly 200 Miles from the Rhine and it was Here that h co entered ii he City with 16 tanks and wound up with one of them minus a tanks broke Down the rest were knocked after today tonks and of up the Ridge arid into but h co accounted for two Panther a was responsible for it capt Harvey of put Robert of in charge of a Sherman when the regular tank commander went on furlough just before the drive from the Rhine later one of Barretts Crew was hit by a sniper and when the first Panther tank crawled around1 a Bend in the Road 400 Yards after knocking out another Barrett Loose a Volley of fire from his 75mm which halted the the blast caught the Panther in the the Crew crawled out of the Turret and Barretts 50 Cal machine gun downed them on the another Panther moved into trailing the ill fated first Barretts pfc Talmadge of bulls let go with three More rounds the 75 which struck Wilbur of Driver and pvt of Rose 9s death blamed 1 on by Andy stars and strives staff writer with 1st april Gen Marice army whose death was yesterday by she w was killed saturday by a nazi who apparent misunderstood the generals action of a buckling his pistol Holster hand to his German details released by the 1st army said Gen Rose had been visiting via Sec Force in Welborn when i vehicle ran into a enemy the general was in a jeep i his maj Robert an the started Fol Lowed by several staff officers in through a Patch of woo East of and Cami Pointblank against a German Tarih the tank commander shouted or Ders at the stepped out of the jeep with upraised and tried to explain to the tank ing like apparently headed capt Joe called for direct fire on the House and it Hugo of san commanding1 antitank platoon of the 3d let with several when the House was hit the Jer Ries left in a co l Sharp shooters picked them off like ducks on a x of the All during the night huge trucks rolled into carrying assault and at 0425 hours this morn l co started across the by 0500all l co and most of i co were across and advancing against practically no the engr combat in went to Oil a footbridge and be fore it was Light enough for any Jerries to fire on the it Robert of and his men had completed the Span and k co was ready to move eastbound traffic was halted for a few minutes to allow the first passengers West bound were three fied is the 2d commanded by a tool Samuel of West crossed the Weser from a Little Village could be heard sounds of Battle As snipers tried to defend Tjie town against s t e a d i 1 y advancing those snipers who bothered to look Back could see the wrecked the Bridge that was sup posed to keep the americans West of the Berlin found dead City by recon fliers april american recon fliers took a Low level Joyride Over Berlin yester Day in perfect visibility and re ported that they did not single flak from what appears to be a dead they looked Down into the streets where not a single person or vehicle appeared to be they reported that the heart the Cap disclosed great out of that he didst understand what Wallah general kilted assuming the nazi Rose unbuckled the Holste and started to hand it Over who the German shot through head with burp Bellinger and the jeep drive into a followed Bop the Hal track the i managed to crawl out of Bellinger returned to the later and found the generals body a Rose was the Lith americans general killed in action in this War eight others have died in air plane crashes and 15 of natural while eight Are missing and 19 prisoners of yank finds parents in Mannheim ruins with 3d april 4 pfc Richard found father arid Mother in where scarcely a House remains Young Levy was born in Mapait Heim but left there in now an american Richard that he bribed a nazi official for a permit enabling him to reach to Wii he was t lie re Only months when he was drafted eventually sent the senior Levy told his son it was jailed by the Gestapo a Fejt months age when accused of Szijj ing during an american air raid but was released through the la in a few 2d anew fluence of his property 1 Ike impounds nazi Gold with the supreme com1 wander in april 111 Eisenhower Racell Central Germany today dose behind the 3d army blitz1 and during his tour the Salt mine where 3d army Sroor uncovered almost Worth of Gold and