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Raises U. S. Flager 1-Day Fightof the city an American flag that his wife had sent him.Organized resistance had ceased, and there were only occasional tire fights as foot troops of the 94th 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 I of town knocked out a number of | our vehicles before TD» 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 wa» mined and that it might be blown as soon as tke U. S. troops reached the middle of it, Lt Wilbur Beadle i jr. led a force of armor and mlan-try across the bridge to secure it The few civilians left m town waved white cloths. Some of them cheered.Buildings burned and sheLs 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 and wounded another.lt;
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New York Stars and Stripes
New York, New York, US
Sat, Mar 03, 1945
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