Word: aschaffenburg
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Some divisions of the Seventh found sore spots of their own. At Aschaffenburg, cleaning up behind a U.S. Third Army thrust, the 45th Infantry suffered heavy casualties in a week-long battle...
...Aschaffenburg had a fanatical Nazi commander, Major von Lambert. In the streets he had hanged officers who sought to surrender (see cut). He had organized and armed old men, women & children. Young girls hurled grenades from roofs. Wounded soldiers from five military hospitals joined the battle. The major's garrison had to be rooted out of practice pillboxes and bunkers which had been set up in an officer-training camp...
...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...
...took it over in December. Soon after the Rhine crossings, Gaffey was made a corps commander. Now the 4th is run by dark, handsome Brigadier General William Hoge, who seized the Remagen bridge intact while he was with the First Army, then captured whole the Main River bridge at Aschaffenburg in his first east-of-the-river task for Patton...
...ring, after the signing of the Armistice, refused to deliver to the Allies the planes he commanded, disobeyed his own German superior officers and hopped from city to city with the remnants of the Richthofen Escadrille until he finally ran out of gasoline and supplies in Aschaffenburg. That night, in the local Rathaus, Captain Göring took leave of his airmen with a toast which probably expresses his feelings to this day: "We must be proud of that which we have done! We must desire that another such struggle shall arise. We must never forget that desire...