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DON'T F RATERN IZEl DON 'T TRUSTA GERMAN VOLUME VII NO. 25 8 APRIL 1945 GERMANY: SPEARHEADS OF THE AMERICAN SECOND ARMORED DIVISION HAVE BY PASSED HANOVER TO THE SOUTH AND ARE DRIVING FOR BRUNSWICK. ARMOR PASSED THROUGH A TOWN 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF H ANN OVER DURING THE NIGHT AND SPEARHEADS 'WERE LAST REPORTED TO BE FIGHTING IN HIi DESHElM, ABOUT }.0 MILES WEST OF BRUNSvilCK. TROOPS OF THE BRITISH SIXTH AIRBORNE DIVISION HAVE POSHED TO A POINT LESS THAN 7 nallES NORTHWEST OF HANDOVER VHILE THE BRITISH SEVENTH ARiaORED DIVISION DRIVING UP THE VALLEY OF THE WESER IS WITHIN 8 MILES OF THE BIG PORT OF BREivEN. THE A-ERIC AN FIRST ARMY HAS CROSSED THE WESER AND SPEARHEADS HAVE PUSHED 9 MILES PAST THE RIVER, IN THE RUHR POCKET, AMERICAN FIRST ARMY TftOOPS DRIVING IN FROM THE SOUTH HAVE GAINED PROM T*0 TO THREE MILES. NINTH ARMY TROOPS DRIVING INTO THE POCKET FROM THE NORTHEAST HAVE TAKEN THi TOMJ OF HAMM AND THE TO M OF SOEST. A1\IOTHER NIIMTH AhiviY COLUJVN HAS ENTERED THE OUTSKIRTS OF DORTMUND. DURING THE NIGHT ALLIED AIRBORNE TROOPS DROPPED OVER A WIDE AREA 01? THE NORTH• ERN NETHERLANDS EAST OF THE ZUIDER ZEE IN THE PATH OF CANADIAN GROUND TROOPS WHO ABE DRIVING TOWARDS THE ZUIDER ZEE. CAN ADIAN TROOPS ARE FIGHTING IN THE TOWN OF ZUTPHEN, 25 MILES SHORT OF THE ZUIDER ZEE. AMERICAN THIRD ARMY TROOPS HAVE BEATEN OFF A STRCNG GERMAN COUNTERATTACK NEAR MULHAUSEN. SOUTH OF GOTH A, ONE THIRD ARMY COLUiiN HAS GAINED ANOTHER 8 MIIES. GENERAL P AT TOT ' S FORCES TOOK 19,000 PRISONERS IN YESTERDAY'O LIGHTING. AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY TANKS ARE WITHIN 6 MILES 01 THE BIG TOWN OF SOHWEINFURT. CNE SEVENTH ARMY TANK COLU« DASHED 20 MILES YESTERDAY IN A SURPRISE THRUST EAST OF KEILBRONN. ,„ORE THAN 1200 AMERICAN HEAVY BOBBERS TODAY ATTACKED AliFIELDS AND OTHER TAR• GETS IN GENTRAl GERMANY, LAST NIGHT A STRONG i ORCE OF RAF HEAVIES POUNDED aN OIL REFINERY NEAR LEIPSIG. RUSSIA: MARSHALL TOL BUKKIN'S i 0RCE3 FIGHTING IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF VIENNA ARE WITHIN 2 MILES Ot THE CENTER OF THE CITY. ANOTHER RUSSIAN COLUMN HAS TAKEN A TO* CM . THE RIGHT BANK OF THE DANUBE 3 niLLaS NORTHWEST OF VIENNA. IN CZECHOSlOVAivlA, MARSHALL MALINOVSKY'S TANKS ARE RACING NORTHWARDS ALCNG THE MORAVA RIVER TOWARDS THE C APITOL OF MORAVIA. GENERAL YERiiMEWKO'S TROOPS ARE DRIVING WESTWARD ACROSS THE COUNTRY THROUGH MOUNTHIN PASSES. PACIFIC} AMERICAN INFANTRY AT THE SOUTHERN PART OF OKINAWA HAVE RUN INTO VERY TOUGH OPPOSITION. THE FIGHTING IS GROWING IN INTENSITY AS THE AFRICANS PUSH THROUGH DIFFICULT COUNTRY WHICH THE JAPS HAVE HEHVILY FORTIFIED* THE YANKS ARE DRIVING FOR NAHA, THE CAPITOL OF THE ISLAND. ^T THE NORTHERN END OF THE ISLAND, AMERICAN MARINES HAVE MADE GAINS OF ANOTHER 2 MILES AGAHMST MUDERATE OPPOSITION , A^IUICAN allD BRITISH CARRIER BASED PLANES HAVE KEPT UP THEIR ATTACKS AGAINST TARGRT^ IN THE RYUKYU ISLANDS. BRITISH 14TH ARMY TROOPS ARE MOPPING UP REMNANTS Or THE SRHTTERED JAPANESE FIFTEENTH ARMY CN THE PLAIN SOUTH OF MHNDOLAY, ITALY; BOTH THE FIFTH AND THE EIGHTH AR^ES IN IT«LY HaVE MADE SLIGHT GAINS. THE GERMANS ARE RESISTING SAVAGELY ALONG THE FRONT IN ITaLY, THE GERMAN RnuIO TODAY REPORTED EOiiftBERS FROM ITALY FLYING OVER aUSTRi*.