The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-09-13
American Armies Invade
Germany On Two Fronts
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it is in section officially attached
| by the Nazis to Germany
after their conquest of 1910. White
said the predominant language in
the town was German.
For the first time since the in
vasion.. began we got none OF the
bowling welcome to which we had
become SO accustomed all across
France and Belgium ne
said. 1--WE met no outright or ac-
tive hostility from the civilians, but
certainly there is nothing of the
/ feeling of liberated town about
this place"
1t was somewhere east of Eupen
that Hodges later sent his armor-
ed forces smashing into Germany
proper. The. German city of
Aachen, whose defenses are a
stronghold of the Siegfried line is
about 10 miles north and slightly
east of Eupen. Aachen was report
ed under American artillery tire.
North of Liege ,ther first army
troops slashed through the great
Belgian fortress of Eben Ema j in
an attack which carried within
mile of the Dutch frontier 4 miles
from Maastricht. Eben Emael,
which the Belgians had considered
virtually impregnable, fell to the
Nazis in a sensational coup at tie
outset of their 1910 invasion.
Gen. Eisenhower made it plain
the Americans were going to storm
into Germany in strength.
Rear communications of rera-
nants of the German army retreat
ing into Germany will be subjected
to bombing as devastating as that
which preceded and accompan-
led the Allied campaign in Nor
mandy" his broadcast message
said.
"Civilians are hereby warned
that everyone who lives or works
in the vicinity of road. railroad or
canal communications, of military
depots, camps installations or fac
tories working for the Nazi war
machine, must from now on reckon
they will NOT be saved from high
level or low-level attack at any
hour of the day or night.
Supplementing the warning,
American medium bombers blast
ed in and beyond the Siegfried line
in advance of Gen. Hodges spear
heads. They reported seeing roads
crowded with German military
traffic withdrawing t6 the east.
American heavy bombers hit &c.
man oil targets hard for the Fifth
straight day and met markedly less
opposition than Yesterday. An lncom-
plete count tonight showed As Nazi
planes destroyed in air combat and
Is on the ground.
The British second army deepen
ed it's dent in enemy de.
lenses above the Albert canal and
sent one spearhead digging we'll in
to Holland. The British 10th divi-
sion operating under the Canadian
first army command captured
bomb and shell-battered lie Harve,
Frances second port. SO hours after
the start of crushing assault on
its German garrison.
American forces assaulting the
Siegfried line made their aA ances
rapidly but not easily. Field dis
patches told of close-quarter fight
ing all along the line. In the thrust
into Germany northwest o. Trie-
the Yanks were pressing so close
on the enemy's heels that German
mortar shell landed within 80
yards of the commander of an
American armored division, killing
one officer and wounding three
other men. The general, however,
was not hurt.
In the third army's break
through across the Moselle be-
tween Nancy and Pont-A- Mousson
General Patton's infantry and COM
bat engineers fought in icy neck
deep water to protect the first
fottbridge across the stream.
Heavy bridges later were
thrown across and armor and i'll
fantry plunged from three to four
miles through enemy defenses on
the east bank. Infantry captured
key heights overlooking the cross
ings south of Pon-a-Mousson, cut.
ting off German observation of the
area.
The manner in which the Moselle
breakthrough was achieved was
comparable on a small scale to the
way in which the entire American
force is being handled. The Ameri-
can commander spread the Ger
man defenses thin by shifting the
bulk of his troops back and forth
along 50-mile front - then hit
ths Nazis where they we're thinest.
From the British second army
came fresh evidence of the
extremes to which the enemy is
being pushed inhis search for man.
power. The Tommies in northern