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General Mark Clark, whose polyglot Fifteenth Army Group won the victory, announced: "The military power of Germany in Italy has . . . ceased, even though scattered fighting may continue. . . ." The glory was shared by Britons, Americans, New Zealanders, South Africans, British Indians, Poles, Jews, Brazilians and Italians. Joyously Prime Minister Winston Churchill cabled Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, Allied Mediterranean commander: "Never, I suppose, have so many nations advanced and maneuvered in one line victoriously...
...Then, on the fifteenth day, I dispatch several messages. And shortly thereafter my amiable brown-and white-and yellow-skinned acquaintances come up through the garden to the bird-cage house. With quiet, impassive faces they inquire about the condition of Mrs. Civilization...
When units of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies joined hands at Lippstadt (TIME, April 9), the Germans in the Ruhr were cut off in a pocket about 200 miles around, anchored on the Rhine from Bonn to Duisburg. Trapped inside were elements of the German Fifteenth, First Parachute and Fifth Panzer Armies-120,000 to 125,000 troops...
...Patch's U.S. Seventh Army-a late starter across the Rhine-was one of the farthest east. South of Patch this week the French First Army jumped across the Rhine to join the fight in the Karlsruhe area. Somewhere between Patton and Hodges to the north, the U.S. Fifteenth Army came into battle...
...Patton legend extends into other armies. There are "Patton men" in the U.S. First, Seventh, Ninth and Fifteenth Armies, who believe Patton's aggressive spirit and swift movement should set the tone and pace for all U.S. arms. Some try to imitate him. Keener appraisers do not undervalue Patton's fiery leadership, his dash and imagination as an army commander. But they believe that George Patton is in exactly the right job now, running his army at the front rather than a team of armies from group headquarters...