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| | Capture of Goering |
 | | This Division, already fortunate in the capture of Marshal von Rundstedt, Air Marshal von SperrIe and Admiral Horthy, today was to take the biggest prize of World War II, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Chief of the German Air Force, President of Prussia, "Nachfolger vom Reich," successor to Hitler according to his Testament of 1939. |
 | | This 36th Division, (Texas), had made the assault landing on the beach at Salerno, Italy, and had fought their way north through Naples, Anzio, the capture of Rome, as far as Piombino. |
 | | They had participated in the assault beach landing in Southern France, near Nice, and had fought their way up the Route Napoleon to north of Strasburg, crossed the Rhine and the Danube, and were now battling with retreating German forces in Northern Austria. |
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