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Even the smallest bridge or road junction was guarded simultaneously by Yugoslavs and Gurkhas, Yanks or New Zealanders. The Yugoslav command had a lot to learn about Yanks. Yugoslav girl troops often stood guard at one end of a bridge, Yanks at the other. The girls did not stay on their own side very long-gum, candy, and wristwatches were fascinating...
Three days later Alabama's Representative John J. Sparkman rose in the House, announced the junction of U.S. and Russian troops in Germany. The House applauded. Then, without a record vote, it unanimously approved what the Senate had done, sent the draft act and its restriction to the White House...
George S. Patton's Third Army rolled along the Danube through Austria toward a junction with Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. Together they would cut Czechoslovakia from Austria, tear the entire side out of the mountain fortress the Germans hoped to hold. The British crossed the Elbe near Hamburg in the north for a drive toward Lübeck. The U.S. Ninth and the U.S. First, southwest of Berlin, broke out for more linkups with Russian troops...
Torgau is a small German town (peacetime population 14,000) but it-had its place in history long before last week. It was the scene of Frederick the Great's victory over Austria in 1760, and a junction point for Austrian and Russian armies massing against Frederick the following year. Last week history repeated itself at Torgau...
Confusion spread through their forces. A Messerschmitt pilot landed near Verona, found himself looking into the guns of a squad of U.S. soldiers and heard a Yankee voice drawl, "Climb down, brother, it's old-home week." Cabled TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham : "At a road junction I saw a dozen dead Germans sprawled grotesquely in the dust beside wrecked vehicles and one dead mule. They had run into an American road block while trying to escape north ward." By the 21st day of the offensive, 120,000 of the estimated 250,000 Germans in Italy were prisoners. The chance...