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Surrender to Air. The next day interdiction became close tactical support. Fighters swooped on German armor trying to stop the Allied drive. Pilots, discovering that enemy tanks were vulnerable in the rear, dived on them and shot them up with machine-gun bullets through air vents and exhaust pipes...
Feeble Defense. On the third day, Düren (peacetime pop. 37,000) was in Yank hands. It was the second largest German town to fall in the west. * By then, vehicular bridges spanned the Roer, and supplies, guns, armor and troop reinforcements were flowing steadily across. The Ninth captured Steinstrass, 18 miles from Cologne, which had been a refitting center for German armor. The 84th and 102nd Infantry Divisions captured some enemy 88s with ammunition intact. In a night attack on Merzenich, the First Army took prisoners in their sleeping clothes...
...blow fell. Now Eisenhower was preparing to attack again, in the same valley. He had completely regained the initiative. The place was right, the time was ripe- and, according to the nervous Ger mans, Lieut. General William Hood Simpson's Ninth Army was accumulating potent masses of armor. Lack of armor in heavy concentration was one of the reasons why the November offensive on the Cologne plain had failed. The Ninth may soon write a different chapter in the his tory of World...
...field commanders, said General Campbell, do not want heavy, slow-moving sluggers. He had offered to supply the Army with a 62-ton tank. But the mobility-minded High Command declined them, still did not want them in Europe. U.S. generals, he said, prefer lighter, nimbler armor...
...entire eastern front, ablaze in various degrees from beleaguered Königsberg to southernmost Silesia, no single battle was more important than this. On its outcome might hang the immediate fate of Berlin-perhaps ultimately of Germany itself. Minefields, German armor, and heavy snows so thick that correspondents said they felt, rather than saw, the movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging...