Word: aschaffenburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Main Echo, at Aschaffenburg, went even farther. It accused Die Neue Zeitung of hiring a "publicist of the onetime Goebbels organ, the Reich [and] other National Socialist publicists" for its staff...
...Walrus. From the U.S. airports Rhein-Main and Wiesbaden the planes head for Darmstadt. Then they turn northeast for Aschaffenburg and then pick up the Fulda radio range. After Fulda they can fly either on the northeast leg of the Fulda radio range or the southwest Leg of the Tempelhof range. In the Russian zone, just past Eisenach, Hensch's plane flew over one of the Red army training grounds. There were tank tracks through the fields and vehicles lined up next to the forest. Said Hensch: "I'd like to come over here with 20,000 pounds...
...country was solidly held by the enemy. Baum's force crashed through Aschaffenburg. German rocket and small-arms fire riddled them. They lost men and vehicles. They hit Gemünden, where a whole German division had just unloaded. They destroyed 50 cars in the railroad yards and "barreled through...
They were not through. Under one of the youngest division commanders in the Army, 38-year-old Major General Robert T. Frederick, they drove on into Aschaffenburg, where they ran into some of the nastiest opposition yet-fanatical Nazi boys, girls and old men. They smashed on into the Nazi shrine of Nurnberg, crossed the Danube, and with the 42nd liberated the prisoners of Dachau. A week before V-E day, the weary 45th marched into Munich...
...45th fought in the searing heat of burning buildings. Finally U.S. airmen went to work in earnest, bombed Aschaffenburg until there was nothing left to bomb or shell. Then Nazi von Lambert did what he had killed others for suggesting: he came out with a white flag...