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Deep inside the Reich with Patton's rampaging divisions, Sidney Olson found "the little valley roads covered with the junk of war-the crunched helmets and the equipment thrown away in panicky retreat, the charred hulks of tanks, guns, trucks, automobiles. The little hill towns are only slightly damaged by bombing as they were never strategic targets, and it seems odd to see housewives washing their windows. . . . I am too tired now to carry this on, but I intend to keep cracking at this German atmosphere until I am satisfied that I get across some of its unreality...
...Third Army sector, Lieut. General George S. Patton's armor had driven into the outskirts of Kassel (see below). South of Patton, Lieut. General Alexander M. 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 lost no time in seizing his opportunity. The day after his crossing he struck boldly, dashed nearly 30 miles through and around Darmstadt, entered Frankfurt, the Reich's ninth city. More important, the Third seized a Main bridge south of Frankfurt, put another force along the river opposite Hanau, ten miles east of Frankfurt. If Patton were to be held back, the Germans would have to match his speed - and they never...
...bridge seizure, and helped mightily in getting the heavy stuff across. At the Third Army's crossings, about 250 miles from the nearest ocean, the Navy carried most of the freight, most of the passengers. There crewmen dubbed their operation: "U.S.S. Blood & Guts." Lieut. General George S. Patton beamed his approval...
...George S. Patton Jr., sick abed with a head cold, asked reporters: "Did my husband have to swim across [the Rhine...