The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-25
ALLIES SWEEPING
NEARER AUSTRIA
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to Rechberg, II miles northwest
of the city, and to the vicinity of
Etzenburg, eight miles to the west.
The 18th Armored division raced
eastward for a 23-nile gain and
reached the vicinity of Arnesriedt,
40 miles east of Regensburg and
II miles north Of the Danube. It
was there that Patton's fighters
were within. IS miles of Austria
and about SO miles due north Of
Hitler's Berchtesgaden hideout.
The Seventh Army's 44th divi-
sion slashed across the Danube at
Ehingen just southwest of Ulm aft
err capturing that city of 10000
with the assistance of French
forces. The 18th Armored Division
expanded its bridgehead across the
Danube near Dillingen, so miles
northwest of Munich, to 10 miles
wide and six deep and began prob
ing into the foothills of the Alps.
Tanning out along the north
bank of the Danube, the 10th
Armored division reached Erbach,
six miles southwest of Ulm. Pol
singer, 36 miles north of Augsburg
was captured by the And Infantry
division in 10-mile thrust.
Twenty American and French
infantry divisions and eight armor-
ed divisions were participating in
the mighty offensive to crush the
eremy's Wanted southern redoubt.
Munich, birthplace of the Nazi
party and possible site of its ulti-
mate destruction was being
caught in mammoth nutcracker
by more than $4,000 Allied fight
ing men.
By-passed enemy pockets north
of Ulm and south of Stuttgart were
being compressed by Seventh Ar
my troops. Southeast of Stuttgart
they captured V-bomb plant COW
ering 80 acres which had operated
up to last Friday with $500 slave
laborers.
French forces, driving east well
beyond their Danube crossing at
Sigmaringen and 20 miles beyond
their last reported positions in the
area between the Danube and Lake
Constance, captured Baltringer
and Ochsenbausen, Is to % miles
south of Ulm. Other French units
pushed five miles south to Bellin-
gen and Liel, within 10 miles OF
Basel, Switzerland.
(The Swiss radio reported tina!
German refugees were streaming
across the border into that neutral
country and that French troops
were advancing close to Fried
richshafen, home of the Zeppelins.
which was said to be in flames.)
A front dispatch from Howard
Cowan of the Associated Press said
both the French and Americans
were knitting forward almost at will
and cutting off huge pockets o:
Germans both north and south OF
the Danube in the area west Of
Ulm. The Seventh Army captured
two German generals.
Ulm, on the west bank OF the
Danube, was the scene OF one Of
Napoleon's most complete victor
les. 1t was there the Austrian Ar
my surrendered to the Corsican ir
1905. The Danube is navigable all
the way from Ulm to the Black
sea.
The Third Army's 18th Armoree
Division sent two tank columns IN
to Cham, rail center % miles north
east of Regensburg, while the 26tE
Infantry advanced 10 miles to the
Scongras area, II miles northeast
of Regensburg. Other infantry en-
tered Beratzhausen, IS miles ives
of Regensburg and 62 miles NORTH
of Munich.
British Second Army forces il
the north pressed their siege OF
the blazing port of Bremen, which
had rejected two ultimatums t.
surrender and was being fiercely
defended by its Nazi garrison. 4
field dispatch said the city prob
ably would be taken only after i
had been destroyed - house b.
house. .......
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L
Montgomery's Sind Infantry Divi
sion captured Arbergen, less thai
three miles from Bremen's east
ern outskirts, but still had to figh
it's way through the large suburb
of Hastedt before it could assault
the city proper.