Word: autobahns
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...this week, rumbling over bridges captured by the Airborne, the British were across the Vessel River and, well ahead of schedule, had pushed at least 15 miles into the plain. General Simpson's Americans had broken across the Essen-Berlin autobahn, at one point were 17 miles east of the Rhine...
Larks sang in the spring sky and the shaky-legged lambs frisked in the German fields. In some of the smashed beer houses were broken pianos, drums, brass horns. But the most fascinating thing in sight was the rolling ribbon of the Autobahn -the four-lane superhighway connecting Frankfurt am Main and the Ruhr...
...Yanks captured their western ends, the Germans promptly set off the long-prepared demolition charges - huge quantities of dynamite -and blew them up. At Duisburg they blew up the three bridges still standing. Under cover of darkness at Ürdingen, 19 U.S. volunteers ventured out on the Adolf Hitler Autobahn bridge - fully aware that the Germans might blow it at any moment - to find and cut the demolition wires. They were silhouetted in the light of burning tar and chased back off the bridge by enemy gunfire; minutes later the bridge was blown...
Another Konev column plunged nearer to Dresden. Still another surged up the Autobahn toward Berlin's southern gates, in a drive aimed through the Cottbus rail center. Hard fighting raged inside the walled, medieval town of Guben, communications center 65 miles southeast of the Reich's capital. Great clouds of smoke, rising from fires set by British and American airmen, beckoned them...
Konev had plunged into the second phase of his offensive, had widened his front west of the Oder to 100 miles. He had broken across the Breslau-Berlin Autobahn, stood within 75 miles of Dresden. Konev matched his power with daring. In a snowstorm naked troops had plunged into the icy Oder, had pushed ahead of them doors, benches, barrels, anything that would float and keep uniforms and weapons dry. Many a Russian died with his boots off, but many more got across...