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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, March 30, 1945

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Jbf v und f i thl of jowl Etter Anchorage is Only three Crossings ago against t in l even if they could cause no v f cd v i l lwui5 237th Engineer combat f Resl Dentzel citation for its work midday Bridge across the Shine in nine and previous length was moved out in gliders troop Carrier plants towed Remagen vice v in Lih o 1menst i Iru Swu Ifil Tad Dessau tic Tynberg Ine with Simpson Churchill accompanied British and Brooke and american it Gen Simpson n in in the ninth army sector sunday  the military situation for three hour the St cruised to Wesel in an assault y by of wehrmacht broken says Eisenhower i that defense line in the West had been broken Byi one of the wars great est victories but he warned that fighting still lies great 0s was the Rhineland Vic tory which left the germans a whipped the general told newsmen there was no reason to believe that the enemy was on the Point of in not writing off this he no one knows what the German will do in his own country and he is trying Germany As a military Force on the Western front is a whipped army but that does not mean a front cant be formed somewhere where our maintenance is stretched to the unconditional surrender my honest opinion is that there will be no negotiated unconditional there will be an imposed unconditional Between the allies in the West and Russia we will take Over whether the germans know it or not we will know it is unconditional the general said it is not Poss Ible to build rail Bridges across the Rhine in a Short time and that Lack of rail communications would for the present limit the extent to which the allies can he expected the germans to establish a new line along this one of history greatest victories he said if the germans decided to fall Back into Bavaria they probably would Pivot their North flank Back and if they decided to make a stand along the seacoast to the North they probably would fold Back their South flank pm the German will stand and fight wherever we find him elimination of German troops West of the Rhine was one of the greatest victories of this or any other the general declared that the loss of the three great Industrial regions of Ruhr and Saar would set a limit on the time the germans could continue to wage organized warfare unless they could produce some new invention which did not require heavy coffer to up rum Eft Prtt of Scad in a Matt negro Captain wins dec Washington Charles l 24yearold negro com Mander of a tank destroyer com has been awarded the distinguished service who if the second negro to win the earned his decoration during an attack on a formidable German position at last Ike inspects ninth before big push playing delaying i believe so far As he is Able ordnance losses heavy cd Jago an army snakes Man revealed that More than Worth of ordnance equipment has been lost in Europe since the it includes tanks valued at vehicles rifles an4 machine Allied tanks i continued from Page 1 von Rundstedt As West front com and then the blow came Early the news was hashed from Paris the third army has stormed across the Rhine and established a solid Bridgehead on the East Bank from which troops Are non ring ahead almost without opposition Berlin also reported that Mont Gomery s armies were crossing the but a blackout was clamped on movements of the armies from Dusseldorf to still hidden under the smoke the world watched and waited sunday the news Black out was partially lifted and the world knew that four Allied armies had vaulted the Rhine River North of the Ruhr Basin late Friday and Early saturday to establish three firm dispatches said Eisenhower had committed possibly men in an All out offensive to end the War the Long rested British second out of action since last opened the Gigantic at tack by crossing on the North flank at j elements of the Allied first air borne army leaped into the Strug Gle eight hours later from a Fleet of troops planes and trains Erce Reich immediately before supreme commander chief a Isnhower launched his knockout to he in the Allied armies poised the Here he is conferring with William commander chief of rhe ninth solons suggest Canada Cut Loose with beef asked this week Why great Britain Doest get More meat from Ca Nada and less from the As they began Broad investigation into the nations food told an agriculture subcommittee he understood the canadians had am ple meat and recommended an inquiry into Why More of it is not used for of gliders 500 Miles forming the greatest airborne operation in scots crossed first the first crossing was made by the 51st scottish Highlander Divi Sion which captured Rees and then fanned out to link up with the air borne the news came thick and it was revealed that the Cross Ings had been supported by the greatest coordinated Aerial blows in ten thousand Allied flying approximately struck the Laid a protecting Wall of rockets and bombs around the attacking troops while heavy bombers from Italy hit Berlin on a the longest escorted operation yet flown Over the ground offensive was pre ceded by one of the greatest artillery barrages of the War in which More than tons of ammunition were fired by the Bri Tish second army Montgomery called on the ame rican Navy to Man a Large pail of his Fleet of assault 53 yank pos die of starvation Congress has reacted angrily to the disclosure that 53 american soldiers died in the German prisoner of War Camp at Hoppenheim As a re sult of the brutal treatment imposed by the sadistic nazi com Mander who let them die of Star vation and medical congressman Karl Mem Ber of the House foreign affairs now considering War criminal said that the said that such conditions should be considered when final punishments Are meted to the nazi War  
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