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The American-Jewish War Hero Who Went Toe to Toe with the Nazis
(Ha'aretz) Rich Tenorio - Under the leadership of Maj.-Gen. Maurice Rose, 44, during World War II, the U.S. Army's 3rd Armored Division was the first to cross into Germany and breach the Reich's Siegfried Line, and the first to cross the Rhine. On March 30, 1945, Rose was killed in action outside Paderborn, Germany, the highest-ranking Jewish-American service member killed in Europe during the war. His campaign across Western Europe is chronicled in a new book by Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Daniel P. Bolger, The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and his Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich. Rose, a veteran of the North African and Sicily campaigns, had previously served in World War I. Rose was the son and grandson of rabbis. His parents immigrated from Russian-controlled Poland to the U.S. in the late 19th century. The German's Tigers and Panther Panzer tanks were superior to their American Sherman counterpart in some aspects, Bolger says. Yet Rose figured out ways to beat them.