Evening star., 1945-03-10
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PARIS, Mar. 10.-Tank- sup
ported German infantry today
struck at the 50-square-mile
American bridgehead over the
Rhine at Remagen, but were
stopped cold as more thousands
of Doughboys sped over the
bridge in a race against Nazi
columns moving up for battle.
Farther upstream, American Sd
Army tanks smashed to within 2
miles of Coblenz. About 10000 Nazis
were trapped northwest of that
Rhine city by the juncture of the
LIST and Sd Armies.
A front dispatch said several hun
dred Germans buttressed by armor
were halted in a thrust against the
Rhine bridgehead, miles deep and
10 miles or more wide.
The buildup of the 1st Armys
wedge overspreading highlands
across the river from Remagen con-
tinued overnight with hundreds of
tons of supplies hurried across the
ell-threatened Ludendorf Bridge
along with thousands of more troops
Nazis Converge on Bridgehead.
German conveys, desperately
using headlights in night travel,
converged on the bridgehead, and
a major, perhaps decisive, battle
impended.
But the initial German counter
lashes had failed, and so massive
was American power rolling over
the bridge that a front correspon-
dent declared "the Germans al
ready have lost the race"
Berlin broadcasts today said
the 1st Army had expanded it's
bridgehead to at least a emile
stretch Az miles deep. The
bridgehead now extends from
Linz, opposite Remagen, upstream
to Honnef, Berlin said. 1t termed
the position strong, but said the
area was under very heavy Ger
man artillery fire.
(The Rhine crossing still had
not been announced today by the
German high command COM
munique, but some German home
broadcasts have broken the news
to the people of the Reich)
Can earlier German broadcast
claimed that German counterat-
tacks in the bridgehead area were
causing considerable American
casualties)
The Sd Army's 4th Armored Divi-
sion seized Ruebenach, on a mair
road miles northwest of tottering
Coblenz, city of 10000.
1st and Sd Armies Linked.
Farther northwest the Sd and Isl
Armies had linked at the Rhine
and we're Tightening a trap on the
survivors of five or six German divi-
sions, holed in the Eifel Mountains
Bonn, city of 101 900 on the Rhine
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in 1st Army hands.
Three miles south of Bonn the 1st
Army's 9th Infantry Division cap
tured Bad Godesburg, where Hitler
and Prime Minister Chamberlain
held their second meeting in 1885
to arrange peace in our time"
On the north flank, British, Cana
dian and American troops reduced
the German pocket at Wesel on the
Rhine down to a width of 5 miles
and depth of 3 miles, capturing
Veen and three other towns. Ger
mans fought desperately in stubborn
withdrawal back on bridges still
usable at Wesel.
British and Canadian troops
cleared Veen, main stronghold
and Luttingen and Bonning, while
9th Army men captured Drupt. AL
lied planes destroyed "a German
barges clustered on the Rhine yes.
terday and damaged SO more, most
of them in the Wesel area.
Allied armies now held the whole
Rhine bank for $50 miles from just
north Of Coblenz into Holland, ex-
cept for the Wesel bend.
Step Up Artillery Fire.
The Germans stepped up artillery
fire trying to knock out the Luden-
dorf Bridge, seized a few minutes
before the Germans could wreck it
and made four more abortive bomb
ing raids yesterday. Only a few
days before the 9th Armored Divi-