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With a great deal of pride in my old outfit, the 17th Airborne Division, I wish to take exception to your statement (TIME, April 2) which places the 17th in combat for the first time as part of the big push across the Rhine. The division was announced to be in General Patton's Third Army in January and was part of the action which reduced the Bulge in Belgium. I will admit that it was the 17th's first airborne combat...
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, surveying the carnage east of the Rhine, noting the enemy's policy of divide and resist, dictated a letter to his Commander in Chief...
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...
Rubble & Blossoms. By last week some 18,000 square miles of the Fatherland's "sacred soil" east of the Rhine had passed from German sovereignty for the first time in more than a century. Over a score of great cities flew Allied flags-and the little white flags of the conquered Reich...
...Rhine-crossing paratroopers carried maps that glow in the dark. Amphibious troops as far apart as the Rhine and Okinawa had maps showing high and low water areas, slippery cliffs and rocks...