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March 11, 1945 (by Sgt. Frank Woolner, Div Hq) - The American flag
went up over this battered city on the Rhine today. At a ceremony
attended by officers and men of the First Army's crack VII Corps,
the 3rd Armored, 104th, and 8th Infantry Divisions, Major General
J. Lawton Collins officially raised the Stars & Stripes on
a flagstaff at Cologne's well-kept sportsplatz ... overhead,
a flight of P-47s wheeled in the grey sky ... the band struck
up the Star Spangled Banner and there was a gust of sound
as all of these fighting men rose to the salute. [From Spearhead
in the West] |