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North of Metz, the XX Corps welded several bridgeheads across the Moselle into one, engulfing Thionville, then launched a push which carried across the German border. The 3rd Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: La Pucelle | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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