March 7, 1945, American Infantry Capture a Bridge Over the Rhine
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The bridge from the eastern side: U.S. Army
In March of 1945, the collapse of Nazi Germany was imminent. American and British bombers were laying waste to nearly every German city. The German army was reaching its breaking point: Western armies were pushing from the west and in the south, they were driving the German’s inexorably back from Italy. Meanwhile, the Soviets were pushing from the east having reached Poland.
With the end approaching, the Nazi government pulled the very old and young into civilian militia units, the Volkssturm, to augment Wehrmacht units, but their military value was dubious at best. The end was a matter of time.
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GLOVERSVILLE The Planning Board will hold a public hearing next month on a special permit application seeking approval for the relocation of the Rob Constantine Recovery Community and Outreach Center’s recovery program to the Center of Hope at 33 Bleecker St.
The Planning Board on Tuesday opened its review of the special permit application submitted by the Gloversville Free Methodist Church seeking approval for a change of occupancy to house the Rob Constantine recovery program in existing office space within the church’s mission and outreach building, the Center of Hope.
The proposed use is allowed under city zoning code in the commercial and downtown urban core form-based overlay zoning districts in which the building is located.
endorsement from the south carolina paper, the state. let s head to myrtle beach, south carolina. john mott joining us. we have two of the candidates taking part in a prayer breakfast where you are this morning. what s that all about? hey there, alec. they wrapped up that prayer breakfast. the faith and freedom coalition breakfast about 20 minutes ago. rick santorum and rick perry speaking to the crowd. they re trying to court the conservative vote here. a lot of questions about whether it s too late for rick santorum who got the endorsement from the majority of the evangelical leaders meeting in houston yesterday. he won in iowa with the strong evangelical christian support there. new hampshire was not so kind to him. he s not polling as well as he did in iowa. some people are beginning to say it may be too late because a lot of folks are thinking about viability. mitt romney is showing himself to be a viable candidate. he s the most organized in this field and so some south carol
coast. a frantic search for survivors is under way off the coast of italy where this luxury cruise ship toppled into the sea after it ran aground saturday. thousands of passengers including over a hundred americans. they managed to escape. one described the ship s evacuation as absolute chaos. everyone was trying to fight their way on to a boat and the crew members were having to knock people back. the crew members were definitely having a hard time controlling the situation at that point. well, the half sunken vessel s torn hull is lying on its side. the divers are trying to find 17 people still missing in the wreck and the captain of the ship is under arrest. nbc s michelle kosinski is this. she has the latest. good morning, michelle. reporter: hi alex. press is calling it the italian titanic. three people have lost their lives. the number unaccounted for dropped significantly today to 17 which you mentioned. but as people were being rescued, they were worried there w
is under way off the coast of italy where this luxury cruise ship toppled into the sea after it ran aground saturday. thousands of passengers including over a hundred americans. they managed to escape. one described the ship s evacuation as absolute chaos. everyone was trying to fight their way on to a boat and the crew members were having to knock people back. the crew members were definitely having a hard time controlling the situation at that point. well, the half sunken vessel s torn hull is lying on its side. the divers are trying to find 17 people still missing in the wreck and the captain of the ship is under arrest. nbc s michelle kosinski is this. she has the latest. good morning, michelle. reporter: hi alex. press is calling it the italian titanic. three people have lost their lives. the number unaccounted for dropped significantly today to 17 which you mentioned. but as people were being rescued, they were worried there were still passengers on board, trapped