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...optimism that bubbled up in the U.S. with the crossing of the Rhine barrier was tempered by caution this time. The U.S. was through with such bumptious assumptions as it had made after General Patton's dash past Paris last summer. "A Feeling of Coming Victory," said the Chicago Sun's streamer. But this time it was not entirely the caution of earlier disappointment that kept down the premature cheering. It was also a more intimate realization of what the end of the war in Europe would mean...
...same week that the Rhine was crossed, the U.S. people learned the full toll of what their might of arms had wrought in Cologne. No one, except the overly sentimental, shed tears. But for the first time the certain chaos of postwar Germany was made graphic. Everyone knew now that, no matter when the war in Europe ends, its end would not bring a cessation of grave problems. And there was still the stern prospect of the Pacific...
...smell of doom lay heavy on the German air. Almost every German could smell it. The incredible Nazi failure at the Remagen bridge last week sluiced U.S. troops over the Rhine, and Marshal Zhukov's men were pouring over the Oder east of Berlin [see below']. Now, at last, the battle was being joined in the final arena...
...Although dispatches did not identify the type of bridge, it was a safe bet that it was a Bailey-a British invention which has carried Allied armies across the river-seamed face of Europe and is a main reliance in their coming big battle: the spanning of the Rhine. Field Marshal Montgomery calls the Bailey bridge "quite the best thing in its line we have ever had." The bridge, at once simple and ingenious, was first sketched on the back of an envelope in 1940 by a tweedy British civil engineer named Donald Colman Bailey...
...Army had made a true and accurate estimate of what was still needed, even as its troops reached the Rhine at week's end, then the U.S. was due for one more rude shock. The new orders meant that the entire program for war had been underestimated. To make up the deficit, the U.S. was going to have to put up with shortages, forget reconversion for a while, and work as hard as it had before it blithely decided that victory in Europe was already...