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great barrier on a broad, smoke
screened front with the assistance
of Allied naval units.
The L. 5. Ninth Army estab-
lished a bridgehead in the historic
attack. opening the final phase OF
the battle for Germany. The first
Allied airborne army OF glider
troops and parachutists under 1t.
Gen. Lewis II. Brereton spanned
the river by air,
Dramatic Crossing
At the same time TO the south
First Army broadened its assault
base in the Remagen bridgehead
area, and the L. S. Third Army
swiftly exploited a dramatic cross
ing OF the stored stream.
The greatest force OF bombers
and fighters ever TO cross the
English Channel at one time, for
nation OF 5000, roared toward Ger
many in an unending PROCESSION af-
ter a night in which the Raj merci-
lessly blistered German troop con-
centrations across the Rhine in the
Ruhr area. A field dispatch from
Montgomery headquarters quoted
pilots as saying whole towns and
villages were burning like torch.
es. Mosquitoes again hit Berlin
Pierce Line
Red Army troops have pierced
the Berlin-Oder line in a violent
renewed offensive, smashing in the
initial phase to within 81 miles OF
the ruined capital, German broad
cast said. The Nazis reported
waves OF Soviet tanks and infantry
speared to Golzow on the maiu
Kuestrin-Berlin railroad, where a
still undecided tank battle ragged
The drive opened under a thunder
Gus artillery barrage and assaults
by swarms OF Soviet dive-bombers,
the Germans said.
The Germans said Allied troops
stabbed across the lower Rhine IN
assault boats under drumfire artll'
lery support. A mammoth 65-mile
front smoke-screen shielded de-
pigments in the area. Suddenly
the Germans said, the uneasy sill
ence was split by terrific cannon
fire. and within few minutes the
first waves were across. Berlin eA-
pected "a gigantic battle
A field dispatch last night said
Americans, British and Canadians
were drawn up along the Rhine
waiting the signal with AN elated
confidence not surpassed even IN
pre-invasion days" Masses OF
equipment including every type
OF assault boat, were ready and
waiting
1t Gen. George S. Patton, Jr,
struck across the Rhine while the
L. s. First Army, already across
in the middle sections pushed TO-
ward the southern fringe OF the
Ruhr. So swift was the Third Ar
NV thrust that the Germans we're
utterly surprised, and Patton
poured power into the bridgehead
80 rapidly that headquarters re-
garded it as secured after a day
and a half. i
on the Berlin front at the central
ODER. the major Russian often
sive against Berlin is Immediately
at hand" a German broadcast said.
Supreme Allied headquarters an
nounced that the last German ele,
ments west OF the Rhine were all
but wiped out Sporadic fighting
continued there BY elements OF the
Third and L. S. Seventh Armies
against German pockets, after the
Americans had overrun the Saar
and the Palatinate, destroyed hit.
ler's First and Seventh armies and
bagged up to $4,000 prisoners. :.
The Third Army's crossing OF
the Rhine was located by the Ger
mans at Oppenheim, 90 miles
south of the First Army bridge
head.