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...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...
...cross the Rhine through the artificial white fog, listening to the whine of woodsaws and the coughing of the red-eyed engineers who have been living in this chemical cloud for days as they throw bridge after bridge across the smooth, fast-flowing waters. On the other side, as the mist lifts, you pass through the familiar phenomena of big captured towns in Germany: mile after mile of smashed industrial sections, of ruined homes, of buildings broken, and broken over & over again into brick dust. Then suddenly you are past the last stretch of rusted junk that used...
Airborne's next show was the Arnhem drop, a bold effort to turn the German defenses on the lower Rhine. That gamble failed gallantly when the British ist Airborne, key division of the offensive, was badly cut up and finally forced to retire. Whatever the true explanation, nothing will ever persuade airborne men that the failure was not caused primarily by overcautious use of Field Marshal Montgomery's armor, which never broke through to relieve the beleaguered British division...
...dropped at 1025, four miles north of the Rhine. Our plane was a hell of a lot hit before we got out of it. Those troop-carrier command boys deserve a hell of a lot of credit. They have to drop their men at 600 feet and that is too low for them to get out themselves and so they have to turn around and nurse that plane back and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't, but they always drop their sticks of men. The Germans had small arms and small antiaircraft fire but compared...
...George S. Patton Jr., sick abed with a head cold, asked reporters: "Did my husband have to swim across [the Rhine...