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...tankmen were carrying out his prime rule of battle: fire and movement. If they were stopped they did not dig in. They moved around the obstacle and kept firing. Back of them Patton's armored infantry units were sweeping up cities such as Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden, gathering a rich bag of prisoners-one day more than 8,000, another probably 10,000. That pleased Patton: he is proud that his Third Army has captured more Germans than any other U.S. outfit in this drive. Casualty reports were coming, and they were low; Patton is proud...
...situation south of the Moselle that front correspondents foresaw Eisenhower's armies coming up to the Rhine from Bingen to Strasbourg without much delay. German industrial towns of the west bank (Mainz, Worms, Ludwigshafen) would be put out of action, and some on or near the east bank (Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Karlsruhe) would be brought under artillery fire. And the Nazis would go cross-eyed watching the whole 800-mile stretch of the Rhine from Switzerland to The Netherlands...
Only intermittently did the weather hold back the Allied big bombers, which used their hidden-target instruments when necessary to unload through overcast. With Duisburg and Cologne temporarily shattered, the heavies turned their attention to Hamm, Bonn, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Mannheim and other supply ganglia serving the West Wall. It was an effort to wall off the Rhineland from the interior-just as, in the Battle of France, Allied air power had isolated the fighting area between the Loire and the Seine...
...native of Wiesbaden, Germany, and graduate of the University of Darmstadt, Lange was married in 1933 to Elizabeth P. Wright of Wellesley Hills, and has been teaching here five years...
...Admiral Darlan has granted the Germans the use of air bases in the Levant. Please at once advise the Wiesbaden Commission concerning the reaction to such measures...