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...Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...
...midweek, behind an artillery barrage so heavy that, according to one correspondent, the firing sheets looked like railroad timetables. Next day 1,300 heavy bombers came. The weather was too bad for close support, but they dropped 4,000 tons of bombs on Metz itself and on Saarbrücken...
Both Patton and Hodges were 24 to 48 hours ahead of SHAEF communiques. General Eisenhower again had put a security blanket over their most advanced plunges. Front reports had Patton patrols near Strasbourg, near Saarbrücken ; placed Hodges' spearheads close to the Belgian-German border...
Even concentrated there the defenses were not enough. Last week the R.A.F. kept at the Ruhr, hit Saarbrüken (pop. 131,000) with 200-300 planes in what the conservative British Air Ministry called a raid "of outstanding success." Another night the heavy bombers swung farther east to Karlsruhe, on the upper Rhine, unloaded 200 or more bomb bays 450 miles from home, on one of the Reich's great locomotive-building centers. Still another night, Bremen, one of the targets of the three 1,000-plane raids of early summer, caught it hot & heavy...
...threw its big punches at night. It hurled a great 600-plane raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines for submarines, planes, tanks) and the steel center at Saarbrücken. Again it was an airdrome in Belgium, docks at Ostend, power stations in the Lille and Lens areas. U.S. Flying Fortresses made their seventh continental raid, proving the U.S. thesis that the high-speed, high-flying B-17s can be used in daylight raids where accuracy is greater...