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...Ruhr, Wehrmacht resistance was collapsing swiftly. U.S. Ninth and First Army units, driving from the north and the south, bisected the pocket at Hagen. Ruhr civilians had learned by the examples of ruined Dortmund and flattened Paderborn that to resist was to be destroyed. Essen (pop. 659,871) gave up with little struggle; the Yanks found hundreds of drunken civilians reeling in the streets...
...pocket was not much smaller than when the week began. The Allied commanders evidently decided that the Ruhr must be reduced at all costs-even the cost of delaying the push deeper into the heart of Germany. The Ninth Army redoubled its efforts, smashed into Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen and Essen...
...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...
...Duisburg, Ninth Army patrols and German patrols were trying to feel out the opposite banks. Ninth Army guns shelled German workers who still came & went from the Duisburg factories, and eight-inch guns reached twelve miles to the Krupp works in air-battered Essen...
Meanwhile the R.A.F. was meat-axing Cologne, Duisburg, Essen, Freiburg, Neuss and other rail centers feeding the West Wall. Some 270 Lancasters unloaded six-ton "factory-busters" on Munich, first German city to feel their blast...