Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Balck was thrusting with tanks and flamethrowers into the Seventh Army's Maginot Line positions near Haguenau. It seemed likely that these harassments would continue at least until the Ardennes situation was stabilized. To Eisenhower, Balck's offensive was like a wasp snarling around a man who is trying to put out a fire...
...measure of ground gained, Lieut. General George S. Patton's month-old offensive had almost ground to a halt. His big U.S. Third Army had been in hard going before-against the Maginot forts and in the Lorraine forests-but none had been so hard as the going along the Saar River and the first belts of the Siegfried Line...
South to North. The Third's men beat off sharp counterattacks all week long. Then Patton compounded his frontal pounding by starting new attacks to the south of the industrial area. He got two divisions across the river after one had broken through the last of the reversed Maginot forts near Sarreguemines...
North of Metz, the U.S. forces captured Mezieres, fought over for weeks in bloody local actions. Still farther north, beyond Thionville, they put a substantial bridge head across the Moselle River. Here the Nazis launched their heaviest counter attack, for they were being backed up into the old Maginot Line, two miles from the German border. They threw the Yanks back nearly two miles before their strength was spent. Then Patton's attack rolled forward again...
...Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River, to gain time. General Patton's Third Army crossed the Moselle last week but suffered heavy losses doing it, cleared a long section of the Maginot forts, found many of its eastward-pointed guns still operable...