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...After a surprise crossing, Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr.'s Third Army was on the loose (see below). Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army had slashed a quick opening, 'after its crossings downriver from Duisburg, and cut a bypassing path north of the Ruhr Valley's complex of industrial cities. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' First Army had begun to burst the seams of its beefed-up bridgehead along a 35-mile front. Front reporters flashed the magic word: breakthrough...
...three days & nights Allied planes had worked over 53 target areas in the Ruhr-Westphalia sector, north and east of Field Marshal Montgomery's points of attack. Crossroads villages became the rims of great craters. Towns burned like torches for a night, smoldered for a day, then lay blackened and dead. The rain of bombs knocked out cities' antiaircraft defenses, and the flak vanished. Then the cities themselves vanished under clouds of flame-streaked smoke...
...spring sky and the shaky-legged lambs frisked in the German fields. In some of the smashed beer houses were broken pianos, drums, brass horns. But the most fascinating thing in sight was the rolling ribbon of the Autobahn -the four-lane superhighway connecting Frankfurt am Main and the Ruhr...
...bridgehead to the north and seized rail yards at Königswinter, after bypassing a summit called the Drachenfels ("Dragon's Rock"), where the legendary Siegfried slew the dragon Fafnir. They were coming out of the deep-gashed hills toward the flat plain that leads straight to the Ruhr...
Work in Progress. Overhead the bombers still roared. Scores of other cities, the nerve centers of industrial Germany, were being attacked as Cologne was. Day & night for almost a straight month the fleets have been out. Last week, in air columns 200 miles long, they hammered at the Ruhr and the rail centers of western Germany...