The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-03
Yanks,French
Enter Colnar;
Patton Gains
Bradley And Eisenhower
Hold Conference On
Operations

PARIS, Feb. 2-lR-The U. S
rirst Army assault carried it II
MILES into Germany southeast o
Aschen today in a three-mile drive
+hat broke through the first OF thu
Geofried Lines two main defense
belt, al their widest part. This
mimi is SO miles from the vita
Communications center of Bonn or
the Rhine.
The u. S. Third Army along fhe
soufbern sector Of the 40-mile from
likewise was beating at the Rhine
lands western defenses, widening
its foothold inside the Reich to nine
miles and Selling a village only
five and a half miles from the for
tress of Prum.
Far to the southeast, French anc
American troops battered against
buckling resistance into the center
Of Colnar. famed as the birthplace
of the sculptor of the Statute Of
Liberty, (The Paris radio said Col
mar had been captured.)
The west bank of the Rhine was
cleared of the enemy for more
than 40 miles south of Strasbourg
more than Is French towns has
been liberated. the Germans only
Rhine railway bridge was hammer
ed by artillery, and troops in flight
were scourged by swarminy war
planes.
While these drives rolled ahead,
Gen. Eisenhower held conference
at an undisclosed point with 1t. Gen
Omar N. Bradley, on current OPP.
erations' possibly presaging re-
newed Allied blows timed with the
great Russian offensive from the
east. Supreme Headquarters de.
clined to ampGfy a bare announce
ment.
Thus far there has been no for
nal announcement of the return of
Bradley to command the entire U.
S. First Third and Ninth Armies.
Marshal Montgomery took over the
parts Of these forces north of the
Ardennes during the battle of the
bIge.)
The U. S. Seventh Army with
French units along the Rhine were
showing the enemy back Is miles
north Of Strasbourg, and American
forces had driven back north across
The Moder river both east and west
Of Haguenau, Allied anchor on that
front.
The second Infantry Division of
1t, Gen, Courtney H. Hodges First
Army was in the van of today's at
tack, plunging three miles through
me h.lly, wooded, terrain to within
sight Of the village of Schoneseif-
len seven miles east of Monschau.
associated Press Correspondent
Iom Marlborough said that here,
" miles deep into Germany, the
Doughboys were about midway be-
tween the two main defense belts
u me Siegfried Line without en-
eouhterlng enemy artillery fire.
Along this section of the front,
we olegtl1ed Line splits into two
aelense zones. The first, with its
.dAk traps and pillboxes, lies close
" the broder and the second is
'aIIher east in the hills,
40 Eight miles to the south. t h e
0lno Alrborne Division struck both
ssaVage resistance and artillery
A'e as 1t fought into Udenbretn,
smlle and half inside Germany,
s where 1t seized key heights domi-
NaIlls all Siegfried positions in
mat sector.
Many Of the pillboxes in the out
u WORKS CT the West Wall were
te sS.!ted but the Germans were
.srg from those in the most
W. sooilamHanding positions and had to
~ lasted out by mobile artillery.
iun Inc Ninth Division seized a road
N.Y. eIloh I'VE miles southeast of
t, aut while the First Division
VINE p.nef south tore into the West
a. nam Notifications.
Tb I., Gen George S. Patton's
IN t w. Army pounded out gains up
has 'Io miles, deepening its bridge
co., across the Our river inside
w. ttlhlnsny east and southeast of St.
vsro number of German villages
nanI, engul1ed and on the north
BIei a me Third Army captured
mi Ital, village five and a half
fortifoIa west of Prum, the heavily
wb; rheo communications center
Az supplies the siegfried Line.
as VIZ 1east on this sector there was
YET no hint that the Germans
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