the spearhead of this advance. The village of Münchheide on the extreme right of the Division's attack was its first objective, and was reached at 1030 by an approach march. Some German soldiers were found lurking in the basements, Otherwise Münchheide was empty. At 1130 the advance was resumed, still in approach march, as far as Fischeln, a southern suburb of Krefeld, where Company L ran into some tank fire coming directly down the road from the city. The company was forced to deploy and to continue the fight from house to house. By dark both lead companies were on this southeast outskirts of the city. The problem of the tanks had not yet, however, been disposed of, for their supporting infantry kept the bazooka teams away, and radio communication was so poor that the Battalion was not able to call for artillery fires. At length contact was made with some elements of the Second Armored Division in another sector of Krefeld, and their supporting fire drove the tanks back into the city. The Battalion then secured the southeastern edge of Krefeld in its sector and waited until daylight before pressing home its attack.

The 1st Battalion, moving out at 1000, ad-vanced in approach formation to Kapelle, turned left, and continued up the Neersen-Krefeld highway. Its attack was to the left and somewhat to the rear of that of the 3d Battalion. Some fire was received from the right flank beyond Kapelle, but this was light, distant, and not sufficient to break up the Battalion's approach formation. The Battalion did not deploy until 1200, when it was held up at the juncture of the road from St Tonis and the road from Krefeld by heavy fire from a neighboring steel works and from a water works just east of the justifyspacer