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...south low-grade German troops had been caught holding the forts, the passes and the river lines, and apparently with few mobile reserves. They made only token defenses of Metz, Strasbourg and Belfort. No doubt Bradley had scheduled the start of Patton's push a week ahead of the Cologne offensive on the chance that Field Marshal von Rundstedt might shove reserves into the southern breaches. Rundstedt did not yield to this incitement. Instead he crowded more men, fire power and armor into the sector east of Aachen...
...cutting of Metz's communications unhinged the German position in Lorraine, and they began a general withdrawal to the east. Because of its web of roads and railways the city will be an immensely valuable supply base for the Allies...
Persian Rugs. As Lieut. General George S. Patton's infantry closed on Metz from the north, west and south, the outer string of forts put up only feeble resistance, sometimes none at all. Some had no weapons bigger than machine guns, and some seemed to be used chiefly for living quarters. The German commandant of Fort Verny had installed Persian rugs, Louis XV chairs, Oriental lacquered tables. He was captured behind the fort, wandering dazedly about in search...
Patton's pincers east of Metz, which had been drawing steadily together, finally closed and the city was cut off. Then the Germans began demolitions which sent debris whirling high into the smoky air. At week's end the Yanks had occupied three-fourths of Metz and captured the SS garrison commander. La Pucelle was as good as theirs...
...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...