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...alternative, however, is regional instability that will violently challenge the West for decades. Wouldn't it be preferable to stick to our task and improve our methods - for example give the locals more of a stake as the author suggested - than to leave and relinquish our gains? Nancy Schimkat, WEINHEIM, GERMANY...
Major General William Frische Dean drove the 44th Division hard through Mannheim and Weinheim; then, swinging south toward Austria, the 44th took Lorch, Ulm (where Napoleon had routed 50,000 Austrians), Memmingen and Kempten, and cleared the Fern Pass. Obviously, the war was in its last phase, but strapping Bill Dean would not relax. He called in his regimental commanders and told them: "Our business is fighting. We will keep on fighting until we get the official word that the war has ended...
...inspected the 3rd Armored Division (lined up along a dusty road near Neu Isenburg) and the 84th Infantry Division (standing at stiff attention along another road near Weinheim). When he asked Sergeant Wayne B. Hoover, of Andover, O., how long he had been there and whether he wanted to go home, all young Hoover could do was gulp emotionally. Said President Truman to his homesick occupation troops: "I hope when you come home you will find home as you want...
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