The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-13
Strong Yank Forces
 Reach Siegfried Line
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 Indications were that the Amer lcAnA would be In close contact with the elegfrie6 line ct 0 number oi places very soon,
 HeadQuarters revealed that bombs were dropping on the sieefried line and its supporting bases at the rate of six tons 0 minute, day and night, in Q mighty softening.up barraee that thundered Into it's sixth straight day today
 On Heels of Warning
 on the heels of Q dramatic warn. ing from Gen. Dwight M, Elsen- hover that German civilians must quit the Ruhr and RhinelaYd or be bombed out, Q great parade of Amer ican and British warplanes swarmed out over the advancing Allied arm los this morning to spread new ruin through the enemy's west wall forti- ficetions
 A blanket of security censorship obscured the advance of the Amer ican ist Arny's two spearheads in- to Germany south of Aachen and beyond Trier, but correspondents were permitted to reveal that both columns were operating in strength and that new crossings of the bor- der were imminent at six other un. disclosed points.
 The German. controlled Norweg- ian radio broadcast an unconfirmed report that strong tank forces of the .. S. Srd Army crossed the NaH border eight miles southwest of Trier and advanced some dis- tanee" against violent opposition, The broadcast also said the Amer ican 18th Army made new cross- ing east of Malmedy,
 There was no official comment on the reports, and the German Transocean News agency saied only that the Srd Army had launched extremely heavy" attacks on both sides of Metz and Nancy under cover of Q very strong artillery and aerial barragc,
 eth Army
 At the same time, 1t was an- nounced that 6 new American fieht- ing force, the U, s, 9th Army under It, Gen, William H. simpson, had landed somewhere in France to join the million or more men already wheeling into line for the grand aS- sault on Germany.
 Another great striking arm, the newly-conStituted Allied air borne army, also was ready to join In the battle for the Nazi homeland. Head- quarters refused to comment, how ever, on q Paris radio report that the paratroopers and glider-borne infantry would soon be landed be- hind the Siegfried Line to smash tn eenemys communications and transport.
 Disclosure that the 9th army was in tho field came as French units of the American 7th Army from the south reached the Seine at Chatillon, 42 miles northwest oi Diion and 93 miles southeast Of NSncy, and effeetde junction in forre with It. Gen. George 8. Pat- toms Srd army.
 Other 7th Army divisions thrust northward along line 70 to 100 miles west of the German border to the LangreS area and past Yer. soul, apparently preparing to wheel Into line on PattonS right flank opposite the Belfort Gap. Tanks Pound East
 Front dispatches said the Amer ican ist Army spearheads in Ger many were pounding steadily eaSt- ward against relatively light opposi- tion, probing Into the main works of the Siegfried Line. Tanks equipped with great fails hoVed ahead of the invasion colums 10 clear away the enemy minefields, while formations of dive bombers streaked in overhead to bomb ana machine gun the retreating enemy
 Tn the Adriatic coast sect?r. the Germans were continuing ther fierce resistance against BritSh Eighth Army troops, with point 449 a crag.like hill % yards west of much. contested Gemmano, chang inR hands several times yesterday.
 The U. s. Fifth Army continued its advance north of Florence, tak- ing the town of Largnana, lS miles north of Florence, and the towns of porgio Della Dogana and San Ip- uoiito. both i7 miles north of Flor ence and just west of Largnano'
 Latest reports placed one Amer lean force about mile inside the German border beyond hammers. dorf, 10 miles east of Eupen and i9 miles south- southeast of Aaclien.
 Move In Force
 United Press War Correspondent Henry T. Gorrell, riding eastward with the invaders, reported that American tanks, troops and guns were streaming into Germany In force. rolling swiftly past sullen German villagers who made no oren attempt to interfere.
 More than 50 mile to the south, the second invasion column last was reported more than six miles into the Reich after Q thrust across inc Luxembough border north oi the ancient Teuton city or Irier' The main works of the Siegiried Line at thaS polnt lay some 10 to i9 miles east of the frontier ana it vas indicated that the Tanks were just driving iEto the forti- fled belt.
 Between the two columns, another ixt Army force captured the Bel Rian town of Bastogne In the AT. dennes forest and drove forward iS miles to take Clervaux in Lux. embourg, only four miles short Of the Nhzt frontier. .
 Malmedy and Spa, southeast or fAeae. also fell to the Americans.
 On the list Army's southern flank. ws1t.,.1. rsi.ird Army fought one Of