FAMOUS GUARDS
Sixth Armoured Division Played Big Part "TO LIMIT OP ENDURANCE" Rec. 2 p.m. RUGBY, March 30. "Advance to the limit of your endurance." That was the • order given the Sixth Guards Armoured Brigade as they roared across the Rhine at Wesel for the final crack at their old enemy, Hitler's tough First Parachute Army. Formerly an armoured brigade of General Adair's, world-famous Guards Armoured Division, the Sixth, is forcing its way through the desperate remnants of Kesselring's army. In the advance which captured Dorsten, tanks of the Guards regiments roared along the German high roads with crowds of tough American parachutists riding on them. The brigade played an important part in fighting on both banks of the Rhine. One battalion was the first unit to make contact with the Sixth Airborne Division after landing on March 24. Last month the brigade pierced the Siegfried Line defences and took Kranenburg with their old comrades in arms, the Fifteenth Scottish Division.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 31 March 1945, Page 5
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