Word: metz
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Married. Blanche Thebom, 33, mezzo-soprano who made the grade from a Baptist choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan Opera House; and Richard E. Metz, 38, Manhattan banker; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...riverbank. Within days, the XX Corps lanced through the battleground that had been dismally fought over for years in World War I-Reims, Epernay, Chateau-Thierry, Verdun. Walker pushed on across the Meuse, but with the enemy in rout, Patton ordered him to "sit down" 40 miles short of Metz. The Third Army, which needed 450,000 gallons of automotive fuel a day, was almost...
...time gas arrived, the enemy had collected himself somewhat. Without much trouble Walker crossed the Moselle north and south of Metz, but units of the XX Corps had to fight in the forbidding network of forts around Metz for two more months...
Said General Patton in his memoirs: "I directed General Walker to stop fooling around . . . and go in and take it." Walker did. It was the first time in the era of gunpowder that Metz had been taken by storm...
...Walker actually got to France ahead of the XX Corps as temporary replacement for Major General Charles Corlett, the XIX Corps (First Army) commander, who was ill. † Attila the Hun took Metz in 451 A.D. In the Franco-German war of 1870, the French surrendered it rather than starve. The Germans held it at the beginning of World War I and took it without a fight in World...