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...Euskirchen, 17 miles west of the Rhine, Major General John W. Leonard heard of Cologne's capture. Other elements of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' U.S. First Army had that situation well in hand. General Leonard's 9th Armored Division could turn southeast to hit the Rhine and envelop more of its west bank. Leonard gave an open order: keep going; if you reach the river try to establish a crossing and hold...
General Hoge's outfit was to come up to the Rhine near Remagen. In that area he hoped to find favorable points for future bridging. There had been no information for two weeks about Remagen's double-tracked railroad bridge, which air reconnaissance had last reported damaged, but still...
Suddenly Hoge's men realized that they had forced a fantastic break in the fortunes of war. They had seized a Rhine bridge intact. It was a moment for history. German prisoners ruefully reported that the deadline for blowing the bridge had been 4 p.m.-ten minutes after the Americans burst into Remagen...
...dash and aggressiveness that enabled one American outfit to cash in on the Remagen bridge paid other dividends along the Rhine front last week...
...Hugh J. Gaffey's 4th Armored Division (Third Army)* had been given a task of exploiting to do after the Kyll River had been bridged near Trier. Its tankmen and motorized infantrymen were given rations for ten days, ordered to pour on the coal and get to the Rhine...