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French civilians streamed out of Strasbourg, back into the Vosges Mountains. There was talk of evacuating the city. The Germans might be coming back...
...Seventh withdrew from its two footholds in Germany. Then the Germans began shelling Haguenau, a main communications center in northern Alsace. On the west bank of the upper Rhine, they attacked the French around the Colmar pocket. And they threw tanks across the Rhine, north and south of Strasbourg...
...four U.S. armies facing him were on the offensive and their deployment obviously was offensive. General Eisen hower could not possibly have held an impregnable line from the North Sea to Strasbourg and at the same time mobilized sufficient strength to attack the Siegfried Line and the inner defenses of the Rhine Valley...
...Sandy" Patch sent two columns into a pre-dawn assault without the usual artillery preparation, caught the Germans napping. In two days the Seventh's men had taken Haguenau, the enemy's anchor point along the Rhine, 16 miles above Strasbourg. Beyond Haguenau was the 25-mile-wide Rhine plain. If Patch's northward thrust could be developed, the whole Saar Palatinate area would be outflanked...
...Strasbourg, the enemy fought a last-ditch battle in a five-story apartment building-from room to room, from floor to floor-and more Germans were killed than Americans...