Word: maginot
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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...
...Germans had contemplated using at least the natural barriers of France's toothless, unreversed Maginot Line, that notion had been blown away by the advances of Lieut. General Omar Bradley's light-footed armies. Wherever the enemy might have planned to form at least a delaying line - the Meuse, the Somme, the Aisne, the Moselle-the barriers had been swept over before he could organize any defense in strength...
...Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question was whether the Germans could make a stand short of the Maginot Line. It was doubtful...
Could they make a long stand at the Maginot, whose turrets (which had faced the wrong way) might have been reversed and rearmed, but whose terrain, which also faced the wrong way, was unchangeable? It was doubtful...