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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...
...defenders of Delme Ridge were well prepared for a frontal assault. Instead of that, Patton sent his 4th and 6th Armored Divisions to attack on the flanks...
...impatient Georgie Patton, it was good to be on the move again. Nothing much had happened on his front since his 5th Division troops were thrown out of the labyrinths of Fort Driant (TIME...
Apparently surprised, certainly outnumbered and outgunned, the Germans backed up for a few days, fighting for time. On some days Patton gained as much as five miles, but weather and terrain were holding him back more than enemy opposition...
...story of the supply miracle that had put the Allied armies on Germany's border continued to unfold. In London last week, Colonel Leslie Arnold, onetime Eastern Air Lines assistant to Eddie Rickenbacker, told how the ten-day sweep of General Patton's Third Army across France had been serviced by hundreds of cargo planes shuttling back & forth from England. In the last stages of Patton's rush, 50 gallons of high-octane aviation fuel had been required for every 100 gallons of ordinary motor fuel laid down for Patton's tanks and trucks-but, Arnold...