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...Krefeld. Germany, the Penticton Vs (TIME, March 7) beat Russia's amateur hockey champions, 5-0, and took the world title back to Canada...
Last week, as the tournament got under way in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Krefeld and Cologne, the Vs had more than the Russians between them and the championship. Finland, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S. had also entered teams. Each of them had 36 games to go, but the Canadians began by making it look easy. In Dortmund's Westphalenhalle Arena they trounced the U.S., 12-1. Outside, in the cold German winter, a red-bereted corporal of the Canadian occupation army blasted on a bugle while his buddies jeered: "Yankees go home, and learn to play...
...west bank and around which the Nazis had organized their strongest perimeter defense. Then, instead of crossing the Erft, the Ninth (six infantry and three armored divisions) wheeled north. The move appeared to achieve some tactical surprise. Big industrial towns fell like ripe fruit: München-Gladbach, Krefeld, Rheydt (birthplace of Propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels). Krefeld, with a peacetime population of 170,000, surpassed Aachen as the biggest prize yet in the west...
Battle of Bridges. First to reach the Rhine, the Ninth Army's 83rd Division seized Neuss, opposite Düsseldorf. The 2nd Armored Division took Urdingen, four miles from Krefeld, and the 84th Division grabbed Homberg, across from Duisburg. Soon the Yanks had a 20-mile stretch of the river's west bank...
...night raids the R.A.F. delivered some 15,000 tons of bombs to western Germany. Cologne got 2.500 tons (in two raids): Düsseldorf, Bochum and Krefeld in the Ruhr got 2,000 tons each in single raids: 1,500 tons fell on each of three other Ruhr targets. The R.A.F.'s three-month bomb total: 37,500 tons, more than three times the weight of bombs dropped on Germany in the same months last year...