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...slamming ahead on a 75-mile front from the southern corner of Luxembourg to the Rhine-Marne Canal north of the Vosges. He was encircling the ancient fortress of Metz, German kingbolt position on this sector and strongest shield in front of the coal, steel and pig iron of the Saar Basin...
From the town of Craincourt, southeast of Metz on Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army front, U.S. officers trained field glasses on Germans struggling up the muddy slopes of Delme Ridge, a 1,300-ft. eminence, four miles long, which blocked a valley. With their fleece-lined greatcoats flapping in the wind, the Germans were lugging mortars and cases of ammunition...
...time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing for the next plunge ahead. The U.S. Seventh Army slugged it out at Belfort, the Third at Metz, the British at Nijmegen, the Canadians on the coast...
...forced to measure his progress in yards. His Third Army was barred from the Saar by defenses west of the Siegfried Line. Core of his army's troubles was a 43 -year-old French fort manned by former cadets of the German officers' school at Metz...
Fort Driant, south of Metz on the Moselle River, is three-quarters of a mile long by half a mile wide. Built as a defense against German invasion, it is shaped like a double-bit ax, with the cutting edges turned north & south. A barbed-wire-filled moat surrounds its dugouts, gun emplacements, pillboxes, underground tunnels, steel doors, sunken supply roads and guns that move up & down on elevators...