Remagen Bridge Action Opens Ruhr Basin Flank
Ninth Armored Division crossed the intact Ludendorff railroad bridge at Remagen and burst into the Erpel cliffs and Rhineland hills. American engineers and tanks pushed inland as German resistance collapsed, creating a wide Rhine bridgehead and threatening the Ruhr basin.
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Ninth Armored
Remagen
Erpel
Berlin
Cologne
Rhine
Coblenz
Fifel Mountains
Xanten
Wesel
Ifantry
Jersey City
Emmett Burrows
Ludendorf
Ninth Armored Divil
Ninth Armored Division
Ludendorf Bridge
Eisenhower
Rhineland
East Bank
Linz
Wehrmacht
First Army
Midway
Remagen Bridgefall Dash Saves Allies From Invasion
Allied forces led by Lt. Emmet Burrows seize the Remagen bridge as Ninth Armored Division drives across the Rhine. Lt. John Mitchell uncouples explosive wires, while Maj. Murray Deevers calls the mission a gamble but a clear success. Civilians report no immediate evacuation, German wounded are taken, and hundreds of armor and infantry move toward the east bank amid heavy air and artillery fire.
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Supreme Headquarters
Normandy
Hodges
East Bank
George S. Patton
Third
Coblenz
Miesenheim
Remagen
Rhine
Lower Rhine
Xanten
Wagner
Siegfried
West Rhine
Wesel
First Division
Bonn
Howard Cowan
Germany
Emmet J. Burrows
Ninth Armored Division
John Mitchell
Pittsburgh
Ninth Armored
Roer
Murray Deevers
27Th Armored Infantry
William Gibble
Henryetta
Okla
Gibble
William Hodges
Battle of Berlin Rages As Reds Push 175 Mile Front
Moscow reports say the battle resumes with the Red Army pressing along the Oder Neisse line. Soviet forces breach into Kuestrin near Berlin while circling the fortress city from multiple approaches and closing on the Baltic ports of Danzig and Stettin.
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Berlin
London
Moscow
Oder
Neisse
Red
Kuestrin
Adolf Hitler
Oder Front
Oder-Neisse
Danzig
Stettin
Baltic Sea
Gregory K. Zhukov
Oder River
West Bank
DNB
Ernst von Hammer
von Hammer
Tolleson Dies in Calcutta During Secret Mission
Mrs. Hugh Tolleson of Amarillo learns her son Private John Hugh Tolleson has died March 3 in Calcutta India while serving with an Army unit in Asia. Tolleson a 1941 Amarillo High School graduate and 1943 New Mexico Military Institute valedictorian studied Asiatic languages at UC Berkeley and sailed for overseas duty last January.
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War Department
Hugh Tolleson
van Buren
Pfe
John Hugh Tolleson
Calcutta
India
Toleson
Asia
Tolleson
University of California
Washington, D. C
Miami Beach
Fla
Trinidad
Brazil
North Africa
Army
Amarillo High School
New Mexico Military Institute
Camp Maxey
ASTP
Berkeley
Cal
Amarillo Hardware Co
Maj
Jim Tolleson
Liberator
England
Mary Ann
Betty Lou
Southern Methodist University At
Dallas
Jane van Brauman
Kassel Bombed Again as RAF and US Air Forces Strike
British night raids hit Kassel submarine yards and Hamburg targets while US Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces raid German rail yards and tank plants at Kassel Osnabruck Munster and Frankfurt am Main. Berlin Mosquito bombers strike again as Allied fighters cover the front amid heavy bomber operations.
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London
Kassel
RAF
S. Eighth Air Force
Hamburg
Berlin
U.S. 15Th Air Force
Hungary
Komarom
Hegveshalom
Italy
The
Reich
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Osnabruck
Muenster
Rheine
Frankfurt-am- Main
Hannover
Hagen
Blohm- Voss
Fighth
Ruhr
Western Allied Armies Advance in Germany 1945 Report
The report outlines Allied progress across the western front. Canadian First Army captures Xanten and a Rhine ferry point. U S Ninth Army presses the Wesel pocket. First and Third Armies push across the Rhine into a secure bridgehead near Koblenz and drive toward a juncture with the First Army. The Seventh Army maintains Saar pressure while divisions move toward Coblenz and Trier.
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Associated Press
Xanten
Ferry Point
Cierman
Weeel
U. S
East Bank
Rhine
Remagen
Bonn
Eifel
Saar
U. SS
Ninth Army
Wesel
U. 8
First Army
Coblenz
Cobrenz
Trier
C R Garner Critically Ill Taken To Hospital
C R Garner dealer in cottonseed cake and cattle feed is critically ill in St Anthony s hospital. Ill for some time he was taken to the hospital yesterday. His offices are in the Amarillo National Bank building.
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C. R. Garner
St. Anthony's Hospital
Garner
Mr. Garner
Amarillo National Bank
Humphrys Succumbs in Dallas Hospital at 55
C M Humphrys 55 died in a Dallas hospital where he had been treated since December. He was president of McDonald Auto Supply Co and invested in oil and banking. Born July 22 1889 in Fort Stockton Missouri he married Marguerite Wheatley Black in 1930. Funeral 4 p.m. tomorrow at Griggs Chapel with burial in Llano Cemetery. Flowers discouraged funds to Preventorium or Children’s Home urged. Survived by widow and his mother.
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C. M. Lum Humphrys
Dallas
Griggs Chapel
Humphrys
Amarillo
Ray Wheatley
Charles A. Fisk
Amarillo Bank and Trust Company
Trust Company
Ft. Stockton
Marguerite Wheatley Black
Hughes
C. B. Humphrys
Harrison
New American 15th Army joins Western Front
On the Western Front the 15th Army, part of the 12th Army Group under Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, is announced ready to join the final assault on Germany. Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow commands the 15th Army. its exact location was not disclosed. The ceremony honoring Gen. Gerow and six other commanders included the Legion of Honor.
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12Th Army Group
Western Front
15Th
Germany
15Th Army
12Th Army
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
United States First
Third Armies
Leonard T. Gerow
Gerow
First Army
Normandy
John J. Pershing
AEF
Getow
Weather forecast for Amarillo region and West Texas
The forecast shows continued fair conditions this afternoon and night with increasing clouds Saturday. Del Rio and Eagle Pass area and east of the Pecos River expect more cloudiness. temperatures mostly steady. New Mexico similar, with low tonight 30 to 40 and highs Saturday 55 to 60 north and 75 south. Also notes folding cots and office furniture suppliers and an insurance firm.
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Amarillo
Texas
del Rio- Fagle Pass
Pecos River
New Mexico
Mindanao Invasions and Filipino Fronts Show U S Advances
U S and Allied forces push across Mindanao and Luzon as heavy fighting continues in Burma and Iwo Jima. Generals warn of realities on invasion plans while Tokyo and London report mixed signals on landings.
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Kuniaki
Japan
Chester W. Nimitz
Mandalay
Burma
Luzon
Philippines
London
U. S
Mindanao
Zamboanga
Phillippines
Federal Communications Commission
Tokyo
Dockworkers Return as London Port Strike Ends
About 10,000 dockworkers and stevedores resumed work in the Port of London today after a nine day strike. The return clears bottlenecks and resumes cargo handling across the harbor.
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London
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North Borneo
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