HEAP OF RUBBLE
' BITBURG TAKEN BY FIRST ARMY (Rec. 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 28. The Third Army to-day captured 15 towns and cleared another in advances up to one and a-half miles on a 55-mile front, says (Reuter's correspondent with the Third Army. The Americans occupied the shattered remnants of the once-important road junction town o(f Bitburg, capturing a few German soldiers and larger numbers of badlyscared civilians, mostly old men and children.
American infantrymen, moving behind a screen of tanks, had little difficulty in overcoming final resistance from the small German rearguard. Bombing had reduced Bitburg to a heap of rubble. The only unscathed object is a plinth at crossroads in the centre of the town, surmounted by a large German bomb—a monument to Luftwaffe victories in Poland and the Low Countries.
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Evening Star, Issue 25422, 1 March 1945, Page 5
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133HEAP OF RUBBLE Evening Star, Issue 25422, 1 March 1945, Page 5
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