On the evening of April 11, after advancing some sixty miles since daybreak, a spearhead of the U.S. Ninth Army reached the Elbe River near Magdeburg, and on the next day threw a bridgehead over it.

• 美国第九集团军先头部队4月11日破晓以来挺进了大约六十英里，晚上到达马格德堡附近的易北河岸，第二天就在河岸建立了桥头堡。