Noticed the small salient over the Rhine at Ramagen.
Thank you again for these posts.
The big news you posted today is about the attack on Cologne and along the Rhine. I can picture Cologne well because I have spent considerable time there from time. (My brother played professional basketball for Cologne, of all things.) I am also reading for the first time Belton Cooper’s seminal work “Death Traps” which recounts his action as a junior officer in the maintenance division of the 3rd Armor Division. The Shermans were a major part of the action in these old NYT reports you posted.
The other articles posted are of interest of course. Iwo was killing many American boys by the minute. And the liberation of the Philippines was happening slowly. I have marched three times in the commemorative 26.2-mile march at White Sands Missile Base: Bataan Memorial Death March. When I last marched a few years ago, there were still some survivors from Bataan and Camp Anderson.
As to March 6th, 1836: “Remember the Alamo.”
Oldplayer
