Word: belfort
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...mile front from Venlo to Belfort, six Allied armies smashed into the tough outposts of Germany. Suddenly shedding its cloak of secrecy, the U.S. Ninth Army showed up on the left flank of the First Army, attacked toward Cologne behind the heaviest rain of bombs and shells the west had ever seen. The Third Army, whose assault on Metz last fortnight had touched off the winter offensive, probed into Germany below Luxembourg...
...Seventh Army advanced in the Vosges; the French First Army broke through the Belfort Gap. Still in reserve were the First Canadian Army, and the First Airborne Army, which may now bring off a successful Arnhem operation-at Arnhem or somewhere else...
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's French First Army (Moroccans, Algerians, Senegalese, F.F.I.s) pushed into the Belfort Gap. When German resistance crumbled, one French force captured Belfort while another bypassed it to the south and reached the Rhine...
...generally slow. For the time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing for the next plunge ahead. The U.S. Seventh Army slugged it out at Belfort, the Third at Metz, the British at Nijmegen, the Canadians on the coast...
South of Patton's army, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army was learning the same kind of lesson, taught by desperate Germans from the North Sea to the Alps. Through forests, hills and French hamlets in the Belfort area the Seventh gained a few hundred yards a day in hard, wary fighting against Germans who infiltrated and ambushed, kept the attackers on constant, red-eyed alert...