WAR AT
GLANCE
March
10, 1945
THE
WESTERN FRONT:
First great battle east of Rhine
took shape; Americans threw back tank supported
counterattack as vast stream of
men and supplies poured over bridge; more Germans' raced for area; Wesel pocket
in north whittled further; Third army hacked at trapped Germans in Eifel pocket
after juncture with First.
THE
RUSSIAN FRONT:
Germans reported Red army
consolidating Oder bridgehead for assault on Berlin, fighting in Kuestren;
Moscow said great attack approached Stettin on 30-mile arc, Danzig menaced.
THE
PACIFIC FRONT:
Vast fires burned in Tokyo, fires
reported ill emperor's palace area after mightiest
B-29
raid yesterday, marines on Iwo reached northeast beaches, splitting enemy
forces, enemy reported Mindanao in Philippines invaded; Americans drove forward
east of Manila; British in Burma captured Mandalay hill
ST. JOSEPH, MICH., SATURDAY,
MARCH 10, 1945.
YANKS
REPULSE
FIRST
ATTACK
ON
BRIDGEHEAD
Steadily Bolster
Position
On East Bank of
Rhine;
Near Coblenz
BULLETIN
LONDON,
March 10 (AP) —
The
Berlin radio reported today American troops were storming the Rhine in small
craft south of Honnef, at the northern end of the newly-won Rr.augen bridgehead.
PARIS, March 10 (AP).—
Tank supported German infantry
struck at the 50-square-mile American bridgehead over the Rhine at Reraagen
today, but were stopped cold more
sped over thousands of the bridge
doughboys in a race against Nazi columns moving up for battle.
Farther upstream, TJ. S. Third. Army
tanks smashed to within two miles of Coblenz. Some 20,000 Nazis were trapped
northwest of that Rhine city by the juncture of the First and Third Armies.
A front dispatch said several
hundred Germans buttressed by armor were halted in a thrust against the Rhine
bridgehead, five miles deep and ten or more wide.
Bolster
Bridgehead
The buildup of the First Army's wedge
continued overnight with, hundreds of tons of supplies hurried across the
shell-threatened Ludendorf bridge along
with thousands more troops.
German convoys, desperately using
headlights in night travel, converged on the bridgehead, and a major, perhaps
decisive, battle impended.
GREATEST
RAID
BY
SUPERFORTS
ENGULFS TOKYO
Fires
Spread To Imperial
Palace,
300 Planes In
Record
Armada
21ST BOMBER COMMAND,
Guam, March 10 (AP)—
A "hellish sea of fire,
touched off by the greatest raid ever
made by Superfortresses, engulfed the heart of Tokyo today and eddied up to the
Imperial
palace grounds.
It looked like the whole damn town
was burning" said one airman returning this morning from the fiist mass
night-time raid on the enemy capital. More than 300 B-29s poured thousands of
incendiaries on the city causing "50 times more damage" than the
record Feb. 25 raid which devastated 240 city blocks, said Brig.
Gen. Thomas S. Power.
Sea
of Flames
"The area below me was
literally a sea of flame," Power reported after two hours over Tokyo
"It was the greatest show on earth."
A Japanese communique asserted fires
broke out at the Imperial palace but were put out before 3 a. m.
Previously Tokyo radio said
flames reached the emperor's stables. The communique claimed all fires were under
control by 8 a. m.
WAR AT
GLANCE
March
10, 1945
THE
WESTERN FRONT:
First great battle east of Rhine
took shape; Americans threw back tank supported
counterattack as vast stream of
men and supplies poured over bridge; more Germans' raced for area; Wesel pocket
in north whittled further; Third army hacked at trapped Germans in Eifel pocket
after juncture with First.
THE
RUSSIAN FRONT:
Germans reported Red army
consolidating Oder bridgehead for assault on Berlin, fighting in Kuestren;
Moscow said great attack approached Stettin on 30-mile arc, Danzig menaced.
THE
PACIFIC FRONT:
Vast fires burned in Tokyo, fires
reported ill emperor's palace area after mightiest
B-29
raid yesterday, marines on Iwo reached northeast beaches, splitting enemy
forces, enemy reported Mindanao in Philippines invaded; Americans drove forward
east of Manila; British in Burma captured Mandalay hill.
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