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Markowitz, OfSt.Malo Citadel Fame Nov Captain,Sends Home A Strange Tale Of The Nazi Surrender. CARTERET — Back in Augustt$e world ws* well informed that Jihn J. Mankowiti, a Carteret itfcn who was A Lieutenant in Co. 829th Infantry of the 83rd [vision, had led a heroic charge :ato*t the fortress in the the city of St. Malo ih Fran, le charge didn’t result in the iptftre of the citadel however* id NLarkowitR and his men had Aght their way buck to their m lines the same way ithey*diuu:throtghane out to battle, thering cross-fire.7 A few days Inter the citadel surrendered, after a futile and stubborn battle put up by the or-of the German Colonel who was in command and to whom the Hves olt;f his men meant nothing compared to what he considered hi* own honor.Now, through a letter receivedthis week, members of Markow-ito*s family have learned two more things about what the youft* officer has done in the meantime.One is that he has become Cap* tain Markowiti, commandor of bis company. The other is that he had a gratifying and official part m the surrender which followed hit heroic dash to the dtadel.Accompanied Gt»#ralIn a letter to his sister, Mrs. Fred Combaa, of Lowell Street, he wrote 11 By the way, Co. R alone had the job of disarming 10,000 of them (the Nasi*) putting them on trucks and sending them to a prison cago in the rear area. Be fore they surrendered I sent one of my platoons, forty men, to the GerMan Headquarters, accompanying our General to make the formal surrender. I’ll enc|ose our Divisional Weekly which contains the story.| fhia weekly, the 83rd Spearhead, tells the story in diUll of tho aumndenof 10,600 Germans to Major General Robert C. Ha-con, commander nf tho iftvislon. This took place September ITth at Beauffency Bridge in France. A Til*The story in the Spearhead tell* one of the strangest tales of surrender ever written. A platoon of the 32#lh, on reconnaissance September learned from Jlaquls forces a large body of Germans 4raa trying to make its way from the Spanish border eastward to Germany* hoping to get through Belfort Gap hefore the Third and Seventh armies could close it. These Germans were under attack from the'Maquis and from the Ninth Air Fortfe. The reconnaissance p*rty of the 329th then moved across the Loire River and extended ita , patrol forty t miles(Continued on Page 2)MHPIIYA1?a i ii •Ciflprcs« year Iowpi mam prlt;?si of tlmeetHaulureaSupteryas Cent |is thniclp
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Carteret Press
Carteret, New Jersey, US
Fri, Oct 13, 1944
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