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Word: forbach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rundstedt's Move. In the south, General Patton's Third Army was hurling savage diversionary attacks between Bitburg and Prum, and against Trier in the Moselle Valley. General Patch's Seventh Army was attacking Forbach and Saarbrücken. In the north, General Crerar's First Canadian Army had taken Goch, and was throwing in an armored attack behind a five-hour artillery barrage. Between Crerar and Simpson, the British Second Army was waiting to jump off. Field Marshal von Rundstedt could hardly afford to weaken any of these sectors to strengthen the Cologne plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: To the Rhine? | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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