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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1947)
ppyfe 's Column Remagen Bridgehead Was Shaky One During Capture By HAL BOYLE MIAMI, Kill., March 7 l'l l'wo y in uun IuiiIkIiI ii Ciur mini truck bui-kflrcd mill iilmimt cunt lli American u r in y ltd first l)i'lili-lii'iul across Hie Mhtnn, cnlublliiliod 11 row hours brforo In a brllllunl mllllnry lliiiublc, Ilulilnd the staccato noise of one nilsflrtiiK nii.l vehlclo ap liiirantly a clvlllun una at tlml Ili'i Hit uiuimiiil Illustration o( how Ii u lit sometimes aro the Influences Unit decide crucial Imttlo Issues fmiKlit y tired nirn. It l tlin Btory-bi-lilnd-thc-iftory (if how American armored In luntry In tlio first successful IiiviihIoii across the Rllluo since 1 Hon stormed uiul i' I I'd Ihc Luilcndiiiff blidKo at Hcmimcii, kiivc it up without u allot belnii lired at Uii'in, and then look It Imck uuiiln without firing a shot to win It nil In the jcc of m iIi).imi hours. The surprise capture of llnil bridge after a brief bloody Aklrmlnli electrified llin world, but I bellevo you will search the war department record In vain for on account of how tho ' lime men retreated back over the iipan that night leaving any enterprising mizl comman der free to blow It up If ho chime. You won't find thl be cause the boys on the scene Imply didn't Include Ihc Inci dent In their "ofter action" re port, nlthotiKh Ihey caught a hlg mouthful of hell at the time from their own brass. Officer's Tale Here la whnl hopiieiied, ac cording to an officer in ine 27th Infuntry battalion, tho unit of the ninth armored division Kaiser Plant Seeks Low Rate KONTANA, Collf., March 7 (Ti Survival of southern Call fornla'a only banlc steel plant Kiilner of Fontnna la dependent on reduced freight rntcn .and ex tension of a $123,000,000 recon miction finance corporation lout). nv Henry Kaiser Jr. He told an Industrial tour yes terday that the Kaiser plant must pay a fixed charge of $21.40 per ton if the debt ia to be I iciu tela tt-ct at required. He u Id the RFC payment through out the rent of the aleel Industry Ii 78 cents a ton. K. M. Rich, vice president In charge of manufacturing, said tho Kaiser mill la producing steel and pig iron cheaper than Pittsburgh plunti. And, he add ed, when the Kulser iron mlno - at Kimlo mountain goes Into pro (Miction, production cost will bo ut another $2 or $3 per ton. Navy Reserve To Be Expanded Vernon Chitwood. CMM, local navy recruiter, announced today that the navy In Ita drive for a huge postwar reserve arm, haa allotted a large quota of the reserve to permit ex-Wavca to rontlnue their service connec tions. The new Wave reservo program, known as the V-10 In-, active reserve, permits ex-waves to enlist In the pay grade held at the time of discharge, and offers all the privileges of the men's reservo program except j th two-week yearly training cruise. Ex-Waves are permitted to en list In the new reserve arm It i they received an honorabl dls-! chargo from their lust service and have no children under 18 years of ugc. whose seizure of the brldgo helped shorten tho war and saved hundreds of American lives: "At first wo weren't sure even thill It was the Rhino wo hud reached. Our objective whs nno of Its tributaries but wo hud run off our maps. "German truffle was stream ing across tho bridge. We culled for artillery fire but nuno came." When g report of their un usual predicament was sent back to higher officers, they were asked: "Don't you know how to read a map?" The battalion communder an swered that one by replying that to read a map you first hud to have -a mup to reud und his outfit wns ahead of Its maps. They received u prompt "go uhead" order, and fought ucross the bridge In a brisk aft ernoon fight to tho lonesome side of tho Rhine. Charges placed by Cermnn army engineers entrusted with tho Job of destroying tho bridge hud only blown a couple of holes In It. Nuzl authorities sub sequently executed the engi neers for their failure. "We moved two and a half compunles of Infantry over and look the high bluff by the bridge," the officer told me, "and tho men dug in. "They had been going steadi ly for three days, and were dog tired. "During tho night a Cermun truck pulling out of a littlo vil lage to tho left of tho bridge begun 'backfiring." The, noise, echoing weirdly against tho black mountain backdrop, sounded to the worn, luut nerves of tho doughboys like the lead tank In a German armored column moving In to attack, No American tunks hud yet been brought ucross to sup port them, und the Infuntrymen felt tho nuzls hud lured them Into a trap. "One by one the men begun fulling back, culling "tunksl" to the ones behind," the officer said, "and they all cume buck ucross the bridge. They crawled into our halftracks und fell asleep. "So for as I know there were only two Americans who stayed on tho cust side of the Rhine a plutoon sergeant and his run ner. They were asleep in their foxholes und didn't hear the others leave. "The Oerinuns hadn't yet be gun shelling the bridge. I sup pose they were too disorgan ized. About dawn we routed all the men out of the halftracks and sent them back over again, and the armor started rolling over, too." For days the nuzls tried by planes, shells, rullroad guns and even dynumitc-loudod human swimmers to blast the bridge, They had missed their chance. I)y the time the weakened bridge finally collapsed the first army was across the Rhine. Hut If the eternal "if" of warfare the demoralized nu.ls hud sent buck one platoon of tanks or one company of in fantry to the bridge in the few hours when the demorull.cd Americans hud left it unguurd ed, the proud sugu of Remagen might have hud u sorry ending. "The next day we caught enough hell from hcadquurtcrs us it wns," said tho officer. HtRAI.O NEWS, Klamalk Calli, Ort. raiDAT, Mart 1, tlt. rasa Tkrat City Delivery Service. Ph. 6417. Friendly Helpfulness To Every Creed and Purse Ward's Klamath Funeral Home Marguerite M. Ward and Sons 925 High Phone 3334 NEW AT DON'S ALL WOOL GABARDINE SHIRTS Beautifully tailored of 100 wool "Loniliic" Gabardine . . ; 3-button cuffs. These arc very scarce. 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