FIRST ARMY CAPTURES
4 ½ MI. OF SPEEDWAY
RHINE BRIDGEHEAD
PARIS,
March 17.-(U.P.)-American Third Army troops
swept
through Coblenz today and by evening had cleared at least
nine-tenths
of the historic citadel of the Rhine.
Other
units of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's army raced up the Rhine valley southeast
of Coblenz to the Name river, 33 miles from their take-off line on the Moselle.
Troops
of Patton's 90th division struck into Boppard, seven miles south of Coblenz. A
six-mile stretch of the west bank of the Rhine south of Boppard was seized.
Firt
army troops seized control of 4 1/2 miles of the speed—way through the Rhine
bridgehead bretween the areas of Ittenbach and Elallerbach. Almost a mile east
of it, they broke into the village! Of Brunsberg and Huseheid, north of Hovel,
B-29s
Leave 12
MilesofMaia-
Jap
Port Afire
Major Lowry, San
Carlos,
Tells
Devastation in
Biggest Raid
GUAM,March 17.-(U.P)-
At least 12 square miles of
docks, war factories and other buildings in the heart of Kobe, Japan's principal
port, were a flaming inferno today after the biggest B-29 raid of the war.
Fires visible more than 100 miles
at sea swept through the inflammable fifth largest city in Japan. More than
2500 tons of incendiary bombs were droppedby well over 300 Superfortresses in
the pre-dawn raid.
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(In the Kobe- raid was Major Leon Lowry of San Carlos—veteran of fifty missions
over Europe, who was quoted-in press dispatches from Guam as declaring "everything
worked slick."
(The
San Carlos flier reported light anti-aircraft fire and no fighter attacks. Maj.
Lowry was on his third Pacific mission, and accompanied Capt. John
Miller
of Baton Rouge, La., who declared there was no flak over Kobe, though he saw
Jap night fighters aloft.)
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