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Lieut. General George S. Patton's hard-hitting Third Army had come up to the Saar area in a series of drives which the enemy furiously tried to check. The Germans spent men prodigally in counterattacks. It was clear they intended to fight for every inch of the Saar, as they had for every foot of its approaches...
...mightiest of the Allied Army Groups. Montgomery had two armies, the British First, the Canadian First. "Jake" Devers had two, the U.S. Seventh, the French Second. Bradley had three: William Simpson's Ninth, a newcomer on the front; Courtney Hodges' First (the infantry heavyweight) and George Patton's Third (the armored pile driver...
...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...
...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...
...grig over the shift, Pearson said that Bell is giving him a flat guarantee of $20,000 a year more than he now earns. (In his twelve years with United Feature, Pearson- and his former partner, Bob Allen, now a colonel in the Army Intelligence on General Patton's staff - received only a percentage of the take from the columns' sales.) "But what makes me happiest," he added, "is that the column will now be distributed by wire instead of mail mimeograph. Before, my column had to be written five days ahead. Now it will be about...