Word: patton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was also no doubt that when Devers' men reached the enemy's main defenses they would be up against the same sort of grim battling that Lieut. General George S. Patton's bigger Third Army had run into when it reached German soil along the Saar River. There, last week, the Americans were slowed to a painful crawl by a torrent of steel. At one point the Germans hit back at the rate of 250 shells an hour. Devers' and Patton's adversary, General Hermann Balck, was fighting smartly with what...
...other measure, "Georgie" Patton had a big week. Against increasing opposition, he still held the initiative, still got men across the river. And his artillery had delivered one mighty blow to the German war machine. Under fire of Patton's guns was almost one-tenth of Germany's iron-and steelmaking capacity. U.S. Long Toms knocked out towering blast furnaces, ripped out great sections of sprawling mills in the Saar's narrow industrial corridor...
...another Aachen, a building-to-building battleground. Saarlautern, the area's second city, was already a flaming ruin-the target for more than 6,000 German shells, because Major General Harry L. Twaddle's 95th Division had seized its chief bridge intact. In Dillingen, where Patton's men had overrun a major steel plant, the Americans were able to advance only a few hundred yards in five days. Dillingen was part of the Siegfried fortifications, bristling with ingeniously placed pillboxes. For each one reduced there seemed to be two more ahead...
South to North. The Third's men beat off sharp counterattacks all week long. Then Patton compounded his frontal pounding by starting new attacks to the south of the industrial area. He got two divisions across the river after one had broken through the last of the reversed Maginot forts near Sarreguemines...
This move gave the Germans more worries: Patton was evidently trying to swing his right arm into a south-to-north assault. The wheeling movement appeared to be coordinated with a new northward attack by Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's U.S. Seventh Army...