French troops clear reich town.

French troops clear reich town. French troops advance past one of their tanks as they push through to battered German village of Scheibenhard, five miles west of the northeastern tip of Alsace. Scheibenhard was cleared of the enemy March 19, 1945, when French soldiers on the eastern flank of the Seventh U.S. Army advanced from Alsace into the Reich. The operation marked the end of organized Nazi resitance in all of Alsace.