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Through the blackout it appeared that Patton had used Troyes, 90 miles southeast of Paris, as he had used Le Mans (TIME, Aug. 21). Pivoting on Troyes, his columns had fanned out. One thrust had stabbed toward Alsace and the German Rhineland border, 130 miles to the east. Another had cut northeast and headed for Metz, in mid-Lorraine, next-door neighbor to Luxembourg and the Reich's Saar Valley...
...Germans insisted for three days that another Patton wedge had penetrated to Reims, 30 miles northeast of Chateau-Thierry, where battles raged again in the wheat fields. Only 50 miles north of Reims was Sedan, at the Ardennes gateway through which the Germans had plunged into France...
West of Paris other elements of Patton's Third and of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army streaked across enlarged bridgeheads over the Seine. Their clear objective: a sweep northward to cut the retreat Allied pilots reported the Germans were making from their robomb coast. A parallel column, 15 miles to the east of Paris, was at the Marne near Lagny...
...Haislip's XV Corps, which had swung in behind the enemy to form the pockets against the Seine where Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's main force had met disaster. To set up that kill, calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit the retreat he had helped to create...
...Paris censors told newsmen they might announce that Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' U.S. First Army was credited with the capture of Paris (a claim that might be disputed by the F.F.I., and by Patton's Third Army, which had all but encircled France's capital). General Hodges insisted that the official letter turning Paris back to the French should be signed by one of his corps commanders, said that that corps deserved the glory and historical significance...