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![[Directions to the Rhine crossing]](pics/pg54-pic2.jpg)

Above, directions to the Rhine crossing. Left, attached ordnance team
checks an artillery piece. Lower left, 102d CIC Detachment in Gutersloh
screens civilians suspected of being German soldiers. Below, civilians
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![[406th Infantry reaches Mockern-Erxleben]](pics/pg54-pic5.jpg)

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406th Infantry reaches Mockern-Erxleben, near Oster-burg and the Elbe river,
and pauses to rest in the sun.
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![[Surrender the Gardelegen garrison]](pics/pg54-pic6.jpg)

The German airforce colonel just getting out of his sedan says that he wishes
to surrender the Gardelegen garrison.
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