The Story of the 10th Armored Division cont.
TF Cherry neutralized the northernmost bridge by seizing Neustadt, astride the main road approaches to Speyer. Col. Gatchell's Reserve Command cut through 15 miles of forest and road blocks to slice the broad highway to Germesheim at Annweiler and Landau.
From Neustadt, Maj. Wheeler M. Thackston's task force battered its way 10 miles southward to join the Reserve Command in Landau , March 22. Five other task forces converged on this point the following day, and on March 24, TF Chamberlain contacted elements of the Seventh Army's 14th Armd. and 36th Inf. Divs. The Palatinate's last big pocket had been firmly stitched.
In less then two weeks, the Tigers had booted the Nazis up one hill and down another through 100 miles of the Hunsruck and Hardt Mountains to the Rhine Valley and had captured 8000 prisoners from 26 German divisions.