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Editor's Note: United Press Correspondent Ann Stringer prob ably is the first American woman war reporter to go into Germany. She asked to “be assigned to the front after her husband, William Stringer of Teague, ‘Teas, also a war correspondent, was “killed in France. She met him when they were fellow students at the Uni [versity of Texas.) By ANN STRINGER United Press War Correspondent IN A “CLEAREDY GERMAN TOWN, across the Roer, Feb. 24. (U.PI—It was a good day for war— clear and highty . High overhead the snowy @x- Hust trail from our fighter planes unraveled through the sky in white embroidery above the smoke clouds of haste. The sinter sunshine was warm. In a flower garden just behind us telip plants stretched from black mind. We were walking along the rubble-filled streets of thiz Ulasteds town, when we spotted two GI's crouching .About 1p feet, apart wi th six helimeted heads ducked and rifles pointed. As we dropped to the damp ground behind a low stone wall, they told us a German shiper was hidden in a building about a block away. He had been taking pot shots in their direction. Our questions were stopped by the hallw sound of a Nazi rifle. It was a defiant lonely crack that seemed to have no echo. Then came the sharp report of a big gun, a shrill whoosh and a deafening explosion. Two dough boys jumped up, ran or duched a cross the roadway and disappear ed behind a side wall. In a few twinutes, there was series of shots, but this time they had a different ring. The hollow sound ing Mzi rifle had stopped. Far off the big gun started up again. The sound of bombardment trebled into a road. But a new sound—different from the others —roined in. It was a searing swish, like the blast from the open door of A giene furnace. Several hundred yards to of sight, vivid flames shot toward the same stubborn objective. The flames cashed orange and savage in a long clinging stream through the already blackened trees. For a few minutes, the flame throwers hurled their fiery blasts and then stopped. It meant the stubborn point had given up. it was a good day, for warm for some,
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Mexia Weekly Herald
Mexia, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 02, 1945
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