
Gen. Patton’s Third Army Reaches The Rhine – First Army Reaches Bonn – 70,000 Prisoners Taken – March 7, 1945
H.V. Kaltenborn News – March 7, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in 1945 and between two news blackouts, General Patton’s 3rd Army was making sweeping advances into Germany. First crossing The Rhine river, north and west of Koblenz, taking some 30 German villages along the








