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...Cologne was what M.G. had been training for. In Italy, no large manufacturing centers had yet been liberated. In Germany, the dense population centers, except Cologne, lay beyond the Rhine. M.G.'s success or failure in Cologne would set the pattern for the control commissions which will govern Germany after its armies are beaten...
Sound trucks bumped through the smashed streets, telling the people to turn in their firearms, to stay away from the Rhine front, to be in their homes between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m., and not to leave the city. The loudspeakers also gave them their first unadulterated news-via the BBC-in years...
...German woman and her two children - a boy and a girl - walked toward their house in a village near the Rhine. A young U.S. officer, whose unit had commandeered the house, saw them coming and barked: "Go on, go on! Beat it!" The woman stopped and tried to explain in German , that she wanted something in the house. Again the officer ordered her away. The boy cried. The girl ran past the officer, marched up the front steps, and got a doll's buggy. As the woman and the children walked off, the officer turned to U.P. Correspondent...
Advancing in the Remagen bridgehead, Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army men brought the highway under artillery fire, then inched forward to machine-gun range. Thus they cut an important Nazi lateral communication line ori the east bank of the Rhine. Finally a 78th Division platoon, led by a staff sergeant, crossed the road in what one correspondent called "a gallant, old-fashioned infantry charge across 250 yards of coverless, fire-swept ground." At week's end the Yanks were astride the road along a six-mile stretch and had pushed a mile beyond...
...propelled guns. Berlin claimed that Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow's new Fifteenth Army had been sent over the Remagen crossing, that Fifteenth and First Army men in the bridgehead totaled 100,000. Apparently Berlin was not hopeful of throwing any such force as that back into the Rhine. Even the collapse of the Remagen bridge (see below) was only a minor inconvenience for the Americans...