Darkness covers Ruhr.

Darkness covers Ruhr. Smoke from a flaming German oil plant, one of the largest synthetic refineries in the Ruhr, fills the sky behind a church and an advancing Winston Churchill flame-thrower of the British forces. Ninth U.S. Army troops, operating on the Southern flank of the 21st Army Group, reached Sterkrade, near where the refinery is located, March 26, 1945, tow days after they crossed the Rhine.