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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...
...Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army (under General Omar N. Bradley's Twelfth Army Group) turned north, tore through the last German defenses to wrap the other arm. The Ninth and the First shook hands at a street corner in the little town of Lippstadt on Easter Sunday. A First Army commander found Colonel Sidney R. Hinds giving orders to his combat team of the Ninth. Said a nearby corporal: "That makes it formal...
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