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Battle of Bridges. First to reach the Rhine, the Ninth Army's 83rd Division seized Neuss, opposite Düsseldorf. The 2nd Armored Division took Urdingen, four miles from Krefeld, and the 84th Division grabbed Homberg, across from Duisburg. Soon the Yanks had a 20-mile stretch of the river's west bank...
Three bridges were still standing at Düsseldorf. When the Yanks captured their western ends, the Germans promptly set off the long-prepared demolition charges - huge quantities of dynamite -and blew them up. At Duisburg they blew up the three bridges still standing. Under cover of darkness at Ürdingen, 19 U.S. volunteers ventured out on the Adolf Hitler Autobahn bridge - fully aware that the Germans might blow it at any moment - to find and cut the demolition wires. They were silhouetted in the light of burning tar and chased back off the bridge by enemy gunfire; minutes later...
This afternoon two doughs of the 83rd Division went across the Rhine at Düsseldorf. They didn't come back. But that was only the more proof that all traffic over the Rhine...
...exhibition was arranged chronologically, classified by wars. The Revolution-"sparsely documented"-produced few paintings. Notable was Emanuel Leutze's study for his famed Washington Crossing the Delaware, probably the best known U.S. historical painting. Leutze painted his monumental Crossing in Düsseldorf, Germany, 74 years after the event, used as models two young U.S. art students...
...Last week Air Vice Marshal R. H. M. S. Saundby, Deputy Chief of the Bomber Command, supported the claim with figures. Said he: One-fourth of the area in German cities attacked by the R.A.F. since May 11, 1940 has been devastated. In the ruins of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne "civilized life ... is no longer possible." Seventeen major cities in northwest Germany are "liabilities . . . to the enemy war machine." Six others need only one more good pasting to join those 17. In all, 31 cities throughout Germany have been smacked since last December in 48 attacks...