Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This move gave the Germans more worries: Patton was evidently trying to swing his right arm into a south-to-north assault. The wheeling movement appeared to be coordinated with a new northward attack by Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army...
...Sandy" Patch sent two columns into a pre-dawn assault without the usual artillery preparation, caught the Germans napping. In two days the Seventh's men had taken Haguenau, the enemy's anchor point along the Rhine, 16 miles above Strasbourg. Beyond Haguenau was the 25-mile-wide Rhine plain. If Patch's northward thrust could be developed, the whole Saar Palatinate area would be outflanked...
...beginnings of the next phase were already in evidence. The Americans of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army were striking north along the Rhine from Strasbourg, to form the southern claw of another pincers. It would not be complete until Lieut. General George S. Patton's advancing right wing broke into the Saar...
Expanding Pressure. But Germans did stand up to fight and die, to cling tenaciously to the German soil, to patch the breaches with more men against a grinding weight that expanded and extended northward to the British Venlo sector as the battle went through three smoke-clouded days and fiery nights...
...Passes and the River. On Patton's right, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army jumped off in an offensive which carried four miles the first day,15 at week's end. They captured Raon l'Etape and Gérardmer, controlling two of the Vosges passes, and Blâmont, a communications center 40 miles from Strasbourg...