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10th Armored Raises U. S. Flag Over Trier After 1-Day FightlctcwClBy JAMES CANNON Staff Correspondent WITH THE 10TH ARMORED DIV.. Trier, Germany. March 2~ The Porta Nigra arch, relic of ancient Roman architecture, crumbled by the centuries but unmarked by war. was in better shape than most of Tner, which fell today to this armored division.Considering the importance of Trier as a road, rail and ordnance center, the Nazis didn't make much of a fight But it was no pushover either for this division, which left many vehicles and some men on the approaches of the town.Attacking with five columns of infantry and tanks, the 10th Armored reached the outskirts of Trier yesterday at noon. Twenty-four hours later Capt Robert Wilson of Newark, N. J.. raised in the centerof the city an American flag that his wife had sent him.Duke’s Estate'orrespondenteta 2—U. S. Annv engineers now ra estate of the Duke of Windsor, sh empire requested a report on Ltais was forwarded to American *an roastiful peninsula at Cape d'Anlibes iring the German occupation and ure had been moved for storageOrganized resistance had ceased, and there were only occasional fire •ights as foot troops of the 94lh Inf. Div. mopped-up.The Germans made their stand at the approaches to the city of 80,-000, fighting with 88s. mortars and small arms from behind mine-protected road blocks. A nest of 88s ! firing from a barracks on the edge of town knocked out a number of our vehicles before TDs knocked them out with point blank fire.Ignoring the snipers. Lt Col. Jack Richardson of Athens, Texas led a task force through the town to take one of the two bridges over the Moselle intact. Although they had been told the bridge wah mined and that it might be blown as soon as tfce U. S troops reached the middle of it. Lt Wilbur Beadle | jr. led a force of armor and mfan-j try across the bridge to secure itThe few civilians left in town 1 waved white cloths. Some of them cheered.Buildings burned and shel.s fell Into the town as the infantry moved down the empty rubble-blocked streets. Capt Gordon G. Heiger of Syracuse. Ind., tommy-gunned a sniper who had killed a GI Inti wounded another.47 on the Bandwagon Now
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