RHINE BRIDGEHEAD-With a secure 60-square-mile bridgehead over the Rhine in the Remagen area, First Army
Forces were poised for new blows. Attacks may go deeper into Central Germany, or along Frankfurt-Cologne highway.
SAAR BREAKTHROUGH-Last Germans were cleared from French soil, except for long by-passed garrisons in
Atlantic and Channel ports, as American First and Seventh Armies crashed forward to clear the area west of the Rhine.
BERLIN THREAT-Within a day's march of Berlin, Soviet Forces continued to mass guns and men along the vital
Oder River area as Red Army troops battered German defenses southeast of Breslau aimed at clearing Upper Silesia.
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RICH TARGET-Crowded with choice industrial targets, Kyushu I. took carrier plane raids as a great "Burn Japan"
aerial campaign set huge fires in densely populated cities. It supplies a high percentage of men for the Jap Army.
PRINCIPAL PORT-Crowded with 100,000 people to the square mile, Kobe, principal Jap port, was hard hit. It took
heavy aerial soundings along with the Naval base at Kure. Osaka, second to Tokyo, received its share of fire bombs.
"JAP PITTSBURGH"-Nagoya's heavy industry, huge aircraft plants and a five-square-mile factory area, make this
city essential to the Japanese war effort. Fire bombs were dumped into its center despite the intense antiaircraft fire.
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