April 26: Artillery
observation plane of the 60th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry
Division
landed in the area of the Soviet 118th
Guards Tank Regiment, 6th Guards Mechanized Corps, 4th Guards
Tank Army,
1st Ukrainian Front
April 27: Patrol of the
3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Division contacts an unidentified Soviet
unit.
April 28: Colonel Van
Houten, commander of the 60th Infantry Regiment establish contact with the commander
of the 337th Rifle Regiment, 121st Russian
Infantry Division, 24th Rifle Corps, 13th Army, 1st Ukrainian
Front?)
Col Van Houten arranges
for a future meeting of the commanders of the American 9th and Soviet 121st Guards Division, 24th Rifle
Corps, 13th Army, 1st Ukrainian Front.
Undated: The 47th
Infantry Regiment (nickname: Raiders) made contact with Soviet
337th Rifle Regiment which was to the 47th's front.
April 30: Formal
meeting inthe
commanders of the Soviet 121st Guards and the American 9th
Infantry Divisions met at Pratau, Germany
Pratau, Germany on the west bank of the Elbe River east of
Dessau.
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