The Wilmington morning star., 1945-04-30
AMERICAN TROOPS
CAPTURE MUNICH
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1928, 900 and at last reports was
crammed with Nazi elite troops
prepared to make stand to the
death.
Regular army troops within the
city staged bloody rebellion
against continuation of the wal
last Thursday night, however, and
an exchange telegraph agency re-
port quoting a traveller said that
street fighting was raging Friday
as the Nazis fought to crush the
Wehrmacht revolt.
The And Divisions spearhead
commanded by 1t. Col. Dona de
Downward, Olympia, Wash, rolled
down the great Munich superhigh-
way on the last 20 miles of their
drive and crashed into the city
at pm.
The 3rd Infantry Division, which
captured Augsburg at am. Sat
urday, also was rolling toward
[ Munich and at last reports was
one mile north. The complete col
lapse of German defenses in the
area was reflected by the 7th Ar
my's prisoner totals. Front dis
patches said that no resistance was
reported anywhere in the Munich
area.
While the American tank and in
fantry columns were entering Mu-
mich, German prisoner officers ap-
pealed over Luxembourg and Mos
COW radios to the people Of the city
to aid the conquerors and to pre-
vent Nazi fanatics from sabotaging
Waterworks and electric plants
which were vitality needed for the
welfare of the 1928, 900 civilians.
The drive into Munich was &C
companied by a new thrust toward
the Austrian border, with one CO.
lumn of the 10th Armored Division
hammering 10 miles southeast to
capture Oberammergau, scene of
the annual passion play.
At Oberammergau. the 10th was
within 81 miles northwest of Inns
bruck, northern gateway to the
Bremen pass and one of the most
vital transportation hubs in the
Nagis' national redoubt area.
Gen. George S. Patton's Third
Army tanks and infantry were re-
ported continuing their drive south
Of the Danube, on the way toward
Berchtesgaden, Hitler's birthplace
at Braunau on the Austro-German
frontier and linkup with the Rus
slams moving up the Danube.
Patton's tanks and infantry took
an estimated $4,000 prisoners yes
terday, but front dispatches said
the Germans were beginning to
stiffen and that the Third Army S
spearheads now were running into
the best organized resistance they
have met since crossing the Rhine
One of these knots of defense
appeared to be at Passau Danube
fortress city on the Austrian from
tier where one column of the 18th
Armored Division has been held
without gain for three days. The
18th Armored Division now is
storning down on Passau after
crossing the Danube near Regens-
burg and at last reports had cap
tured Plating, 80 miles northwest
Of Passau.
General advances of from three
to Is miles were made by other
Third Army tank and infantry di-
visions alta cking south Of the Dan
ube toward the Austrian border
and the Nazis' national redoubt.
A German attempt to oppose Pat.
tons advance into Czechoslovakia
was crushed when Third Army
forces captured $50 of 1000 Ger.
man troops attempting to hold ar
airfield one mile east of Cheb with
some 1000 machineguns.
Under cover of a barrage by
more than 400 guns, the 18th Scots
Infantry division and the First
British commando brigade cross.
ed the Elbe at Lauenburg, % miles
south of invested Hamburg, at
about am. Sunday.
In assault boats and amphibious
Buffalo tanks, the Scots and Bri-
tons stormed the high Dykelike
north bank and secured a bridge.
head nearly three miles wide and
two deep. They met but light to
moderate resistance and took LOCO
prisoners in the first few hours.
Men and tanks flowed steadily
across the river. Hamburg town
was taken and it was indicated the
Britons soon would turn toward the
:. Baltic port of Lubbock, 80 miles
to the north.
An advance to Lubbock would
cut off the .Schleswig-Holsteir
Isthmus and leave the formidable
Germany army in Denmark iso
lated. The British troops were
about 60 miles west of the Second
White Russian Army of Marshal
Konstantin X. Rokossovsky.
To the west, British troops were