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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...
...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...
...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...
...week's end all the communications of Metz from north and south had been cut; the roads and railways to the east were in range of Patton's Long Toms. His pincers closing east of Metz were only nine miles apart. Then the guns of Metz itself opened up on the attackers for the first time in six days. Nevertheless the Yanks took three of the small outer forts...