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	Ruhr Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ruhr Area (German Ruhrgebiet or, colloquially, Ruhrpott) is an urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, consisting of a number of large industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north.
		The Ruhr area is often mistakenly perceived as a single city because many maps do not show the boundaries between the individual cities.
		In the 19th century Ruhr area pulled over 1 million Poles from East Prussia and Silesia due to the event referred to as Ostflucht.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ruhr_area (525 words)

	504 - Germany History
		On the other hand, it was not uncommon for 504 patrols to be fired upon by 20mm and machine guns while still in mid-stream, forcing the men to abandon ship and make for shore by means of the more primitive method of aquatic propulsion.
		The Ruhr "sack" was ever being drawn more tightly by American divisions which compressed the isolated German pocket from the North, South, and East.
		It was hoped by the tacticians of higher headquarters that this venture into what was considered the least heavily defended portion of the pocket would divert badly needed troops from the other hardpressed fronts.
	home.hawaii.rr.com /pir504/germany.html (428 words)

	Lone Sentry: The Story of the 97th Infantry Division -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		The campaign, which lopped off a huge slice of the Ruhr Pocket in the angle formed by the convergence of the Sieg and Rhine Rivers, cost the German Army 21,791 prisoners, plus an undetermined number of killed and wounded.
		Playing a vital role in the Ruhr campaign was the 97th Recon Troop, under the command of Capt. John J. Swainbank, St. Albans, Vt. Besides its customary reconnaissance and patrolling duties, the unit once was charged with protecting the entire left flank of the division.
		ITH the end of the Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, the 97th was ordered to the Third Army sector along the Czechoslovakian border.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/97thinfantry (5538 words)

	Spearhead For the Record
		Although enemy resistance was sharp and unrelenting and the terrain continued to be difficult, the division seized Altenkirchen and quickly forced a crossing of the Dill River in the vicinity of Herborn, and then captured Marburg, cutting enemy communications in the Lahn River valley.
		Unfortunately, we had a terrible price to pay for this victory in the death of one of the greatest of all division commanders, your gallant leader, Major General Maurice Rose, who was killed in action on 30 March at the head of one of his task forces near Paderborn.
		The envelopment of the Ruhr spelled the doom of Germany, but some stiff fighting had to be done before a link-up could be made with the Russian forces advancing from the east.
	www.geocities.com /researchtriangle/facility/3991/ww2spear9.htm (844 words)

	Ruhr Area
		By that date, Germany’s industrial Ruhr area had been surrounded by 2 pincer movements that had encircled more than 300,000 German troops.
		That Allied headquarters sent our lone division into the Ruhr Pocket from the south, and a single British division from the north attests to the fact that the Allies knew that the German army in the Ruhr area was no longer a viable fighting force.
		What comprised the Germany “army” in the Ruhr were a few German boys, ages 12-14, and the other 95% were old men, 65 and beyond, who had been World War I veterans, mostly in civilian clothes.
	www.wtblock.com /wtblockjr/Ruhr_Area.htm (671 words)

	86th Division History
		Two weeks later the Ruhr would fall and 317,000 enemy troops would be taken prisoner -- the largest mass surrender of German troops to take place during the war.
		The Germans were falling back north and south of the Ruhr and the Blackhawkers were chosen to help pursue the enemy into southern Germany.
		Resistance was met in small pockets and many of these position were simply by-passed by the lead units and mopped up by the trailing elements.
	www.86blackhawkdiv.org /History/General/HISTPG3.HTM (805 words)

	Central Europe
		Although the Ruhr area still contained a significant number of enemy troops and enough industry to retain its importance as a major objective, Allied intelligence reported that much of the region's armament industry was moving southeast, deeper into Germany.
		After the reduction of the Ruhr Pocket, the main thrust east would be made by Bradley's 12th Army Group in the center, rather than by Montgomery's 21 Army Group in the north as originally planned.
		South of the Ruhr River, the First Army's northward attack was to be executed by the XVIII Airborne Corps, which had been transferred to Hodges after Operation VARSITY, and the III Corps, with the First Army's V and VII Corps continuing the offensive east.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/centeur/centeur.htm (8854 words)

	8th Armored Division - After Action Reports
		During the period, operations consisted of securing objectives within zones as part of the 8th Armored Division in closing the RUHR Pocket North of the RUHR River.
		Upon relief from the RUHR Pocket 15 April 1945, the command performed guard duty and security in the BRAUNSCHWEIG and Harz Mountain Areas.
		In this action the units of this command operated West and Southwest against a dwindling pocket of enemy troops encircled in the RUHR Area.
	www.8th-armored.org /aar/ccr_apr.htm (1694 words)

	History of 90th Chemical Mortar Battalion
		During the second week of the Ruhr Pocket engagement, Company B was in support of the 5th Infantry Division, and Company C was attached to the 5th Division for the last three days of the second week after the 9th Infantry had finished mopping up in its zone of action.
		At the conclusion of the Ruhr Pocket operation, the battalion was assembled in an area southeast of Meschede to prepare for its next mission.
		The move called for the battalion to leave at night, but fortunately the Ruhr Pocket was at that time so far in the rear of the fighting to the east that flout driving was not necessary.
	www.4point2.org /hist-90.htm (20773 words)

	Mettle Without Medals - the 4009th QM Truck Company WWII
		They were strafed, bombed, and subjected to heavy artillery fire; yet throughout all this violent conflict and through one dangerous assignment after another, the company escaped without a single loss of life.
		While the life of visiting GIs was restricted, the men of the 4009th found that the MPs were less cautious in checking them because, as it was correctly reasoned, it would require forceful persuasion to make an MP believe that the enemy was using Negro spies.
		The Paris interlude ended abruptly with their assignment to the XXII Corps of the 15th Army, where they immediately engaged in the job of supplying units which were taking' the Ruhr valley.
	www.qmfound.com /mettle_without_medals.htm (1838 words)

	Ruhr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fischer, Conan The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-1924 Oxford: Oxford University...
		The occupation of the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian forces in January 1923...
		the collapse of passive resistance in the Ruhr in September 1923 that transformed the...
	enciclopedia.cc /Ruhr (420 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - War in Europe - Western Europe
		The Germans blow up the floodgates in the Ruhr, flooding the area West of Cologne and preventing the use of assault floating bridges by Allies.
		The allied bridgehead north of Ruhr is now 700 square miles.
		The Ruhr pocket is finally annihilated, with 317,000 Germans being captured, including 29 generals.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-europe/western-europe/western-europe-index-1945.htm (2958 words)

	Combat Chronicle- 97th Infantry Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The 97th entered the battle of the Ruhr pocket, crossing the Rhine near Bonn, 3 April, and taking up a position on the southern bank of the Sieg River.
		Dusseldorf fell on the next day and the Ruhr pocket was eliminated.
		Moving to protect the left flank of the Third Army on its southern drive, the 97th took Cheb, Czechoslovakia, on 25 April 1945 and attacked the Czechoslovak pocket near Widen, Germany, on the 29th.
	www.army.mil /CMH-pg/lineage/cc/097id.htm (387 words)

	General Bayerlein's Surrender in the Ruhr Pocket
		surrenders to the U.S. Army's "Lucky Seventh" Armored Division in the Ruhr Pocket on 16 April 1945.
		Due to copyright constraints, the author provides a selection of photographs obtained from the public domain - the National Archives and Records Administration - US Army Signal Corps and Foreign Records Seized.
		Bayerlein, caught in the Ruhr Pocket, surrounded by US Forces, called further fighting futile and would result in "useless bloodshed."
	home1.gte.net /cpq2ycqf/id7.html (179 words)

	Encircling the Ruhr
		When the Allies were firmly established east of the Rhine River at the end of March 1945, they were within reach of their goal of encircling and capturing the Ruhr, the industrial center of western Germany.
		After several abortive counterattacks, the Germans began to retreat from the north side of the pocket, although Hitler had refused the request of the German commander, Field Marshal Model, to withdraw his badly outgunned forces.
		By April 14, 1945, the American advance had split the pocket in two as troops of the First and Ninth Armies met again, this time at the town of Hagen in the heart of the Ruhr.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006182 (362 words)

	Ruhr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ruhr n 1: a tributary of the Rhine [syn: Ruhr River] 2: a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany [syn: Ruhr Valley]
		From Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division in WWII
		The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket: April 1945
	dictionaries.cc /Ruhr (92 words)

	Jagdpanther (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On April 1st, 1945, the Ruhr pocket was finally closed.
		They, like almost all of the soldiers entrapped on this day, were unaware that the pocket they had been ordered to fight to the last in had been shut tight, sealing their fate, although, none would have been particularly surprised, had they known.
		Also on this day, parts of the tattered remnants of the 654th were starting out for an attack, attempting to clear the village of Medebach.
	www.ipmsaustralia.com.au /html/articles/diorama050310a.htm (234 words)

	750th Tank Battalion
		General Collins’ VII Corps was given the assignment of encircling the important Ruhr industrial area of Germany from the south.
		Thus the encirclement of the Ruhr was completed, trapping some 374,000 German troops.
		The completion of the elimination of the Ruhr pocket was left to others.
	www.104infdiv.org /750TANK.HTM (2623 words)

	German Fifth Panzer Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The army fought alongside the Italian First Army under the management of Army Group Afrika, and surrendered with the collapse of the Axis defense in May of 1943.
		A new Fifth Panzer Army was established in 1944 for use in France, and surrendered in the Ruhr Pocket in April 1945.
		This World War II article is a stub.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/German_Fifth_Panzer_Army (172 words)

	20th Armored Division Combat Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Meanwhile, the 20th Tank Battalion and several supporting units received combat missions in the Maastricht-Sittard area of The Netherlands and north of Cologne, but these were "light" engagements at that stage of the war.
		Except for some minor engagements by the 20th Tank Battalion in the Altenkirchen-Siegen area, the enemy made no major attempts to breakout from the Ruhr Pocket as General Ward had thought possible.
		On the morning of 19 April, the convoy was back on the road headed for Ochsenfurt in southern Germany, passing through Patton's Third Army area, Hanau and Wuerzburg, to come under the control of XV Corps and Seventh Army.
	www.20tharmoreddivision.com /page6.html (668 words)

	General Fritz Bayerlein's After Action Reports
		I am editing all of General Bayerlein’s studies and melding them into a chronological narrative of his experiences and that of his Panzer Lehr Division from the Allied Invasion at Normandy to his surrender of his LIII Armee Korps in the Ruhr pocket.
		In general, these Military Studies are very detailed, providing village-by-village combat narrative recounted from the General’s personal battle experiences and his behind the lines refitting and replacement of his division’s losses.
		Bayerlein was the first Corps commander to capitulate in the Ruhr pocket and his decision was supported by some and condemned by others.
	home1.gte.net /cpq2ycqf/id5.html (365 words)

	3rd Armored Div. "Firsts"
		Longest one-day advance in history by primary elements of the 3AD in the northward drive toward Paderborn, Germany, 3/29/45, 101 miles, as part of U.S. First Army operation to encircle the Ruhr Pocket.
		Played a major part in the severe fighting of the Battle of the Bulge counteroffensive, first in checking and then in destroying or forcing the surrender of pockets of sizable German forces.
		Forged nearly half of the ring in the encirclement of the Ruhr Pocket in Central Germany, which resulted in the largest single capture of enemy forces in all of WWII (Europe and Pacific) - 374,000 German Army soldiers.
	www.3ad.com /history/wwll/firsts.htm (525 words)

	Battle for Berlin: April — May 1945
		Eisenhower's strategy had always favoured a broad front advance but there was a lack of decision on what would happen once the Allied forces had rejoined and created a unified front again, roughly in the area of Kassel, apart from a vague notion of making a "great thrust to the eastward".
		Indeed, Montgomery had already issued orders that after the encirclement of the Ruhr was complete, the British 2nd and US 9th Armies would advance with maximum speed to the River Elbe via Hamburg and Magdeburg while the Canadian 1st Army cleared Holland.
		By the early morning of the 30th, the Soviets had seized the Moltke Bridge over the River Spree (despite German attempts to blow it), the western half of the Diplomatic Quarter and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, all of which were taken with heavy casualties.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_berlin.html (4212 words)

	Memories of World War II
		In addition to serving as an armor artificer, Paul served as a combat messenger, and the captain's bodyguard.
		Regarding this incident, Paul said, "Our division moved to the southern end of the Ruhr Valley Pocket and replaced the division that was along the south bank of the Seig River and contained the German army.
		We continued to hold that position for about a week until a warm Sunday afternoon when we were ordered to begin an assault over the river.
	www.littleton.org /history/paul.asp (923 words)

	WWII Axis Military History Day-by-Day: April
		April 6th, 1945: In the East, after eliminating the Heiligenbeil pocket, the Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front (Vassilevsky) reaches the Baltic coast in East Prussia, separating communications between 2.Armee (von Tippelkirch) defending besieged Königsberg and 4.
		April 17th, 1945: German troops of Heeresgruppe B (329,000 men) surrounded in the Ruhr pocket surrender (their commander, FM Model, commits suicide on April 21).
		Isolated pockets of German resistance throughout the city are overpowered and systematically destroyed.
	www.feldgrau.com /april.html (2557 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: From Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division in WWII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Normandy to the Ruhr is a much rarer bird: it is a brilliantly polished tactical history, written by a highly decorated staff officer, which explains the mechanics of war at the tactical level.
		It is supported by dozens of outstanding maps which allow the reader to follow all of the action, and a very robust photo section, which allows the reader to form a mental image of most of the characters mentioned in the book.
		From Normandy to the Ruhr is also a crucially important work because, almost uniquely, it explains the terrible influence of politicos-in this case, Nazi politicians, military and civilian-on the battlefield conduct of war.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966638972?v=glance (2176 words)

	World War II: The Western and Mediterranean Fronts, 1942-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although the enemy resisted fiercely, the Ruhr pocket collapsed with the fall of Iserlohn, 16 April.
		From 2 April to 8 May, the Division was active in the reduction of the Ruhr Pocket and at VE-day was stationed near Marburg.
		After clearing the enemy pocket between the Ruhr and the Mohne Rivers, the Division took Dortmund, 13 April, and maintained positions on the north bank of the Ruhr.
	www.generalstafflibrary.com /Western_and_Mediterranean_Fronts.html (13492 words)

	UltrAgt :: Ultragt.tk
		Due to a shortage of transport aircraft and the relatively low priority of the mission, it was never mounted.
		The 101st became part of a blocking force that later became known as the "reduction of the Ruhr Pocket." An entire German Army Group was set up in the Ruhr River region of Germany and was one of only a very few cohesive German units remaining.
		From hedgerow to hedgerow, through field after field, onto the road into town, fierce fighting raged as Eagle troopers swept into the streets of St. Come du Mont. Here the 101st Airborne first met the German 6th Parachute Regt., later to be encountered again in the Holland campaign.
	www.freewebs.com /ultragt/the101stairborne.htm (5975 words)

	war and social upheaval: World War II invasion of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Within weeks the Ruhr, Germany's industrial heartland was surround and huge numbers of Germans soldiers surrendered in the Ruhr pocket.
		The destruction of the German petrochemical plants and Allied air superorityb meant that the remaining German units were largely imobilized.
		This was exploited by highly mobile American armoured divisions which rapidly moved into the German hearland, surrounding and reducing any pockets of resistance encountered.
	histclo.hispeed.com /essay/war/ww2/camp/eur/ger/w2-iog.html (2959 words)

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