The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-22
Enemy Driven
From Moylalnd
Forest Sector
yank Seventh Army Fights
Through Streets Ut
Forbach

Third Army fought into Saarburs
and closed up to the Saar river OF
.n eight-mile front today, virtual
" eliminating all enemy resistance
in the triangle formed by the
saar and Moselle rivers in eli
making an attack that in two day
has gained ten miles and overru1
nearly 40 German towns.
Between the Mas and Rhine rlv
ers on the northern end OF the
front the Canadian First Army
drive toward Calcar and. the Ruin
gained momentum with the helf
nj hundreds of British warplanes
Canadian troops, using 1lame
tbrowers, cleaned the enemy ou
Of the small Moyland forest anc
there were signs the German De
tense line-built up to.ten DIVISIONS
there - finally was beginning &c
crack.
Far to the south, Doughboys O.
the American Seventh Army Tough
through the streets of Forbach
overlooking the important German
steel city of Sarbrucken which now
is only three miles ahead OF 1t.
Gen. Alexander M. Patch's Tor
ward elements.
The troops moving forward In
all three of these sectors were CIV
en- tremendous air support. More
than 5000 Allied warplanes roared
through clearing skies and battered
transported on and military targets
backing up the German lines.
Armored units drove into Saar-
burg on the western bank of the
Saar river after establishing con.
tact with the Gath Infantry Divi-
sion, which had paved the way for
the swift new plunge into enemy
territory by crossing the Moselle
river in tWo-day attack to the
south. Today the Doughboys drove
on mile and a half beyond Ons-
dorf, which is three and a hall
m les northwest of Saarburg.
Between them, Patton's armored
and infantry forces already had
seized more than tWo-thirds OF the
Saar-Moselle triangle and had gam.
ed control of an eight-mile stretch
Of the Saar river below Saarburg
Waves of American fighters and
1lghter-bombers tore at the broken
enemy defenses in the sector and
aSplrlted Nazi troops surrendered
by the hundreds. Most of 500 sor-
Ties flown by the Tactical Air For.
ceS were in close support of
ground troops, pilots reporting de-
sDoctlon or damage to 238 enemy
motor transports, 10 tanks and Is
gun emplacements.
Inc Third Army also registered
smaller gains elsewhere along it's
1'-ilille front, biting into both Shout
uefS OF an enemy salient between
. sne TWO American wedges driven
through the Siegfried Line in the
iIuem and Echternach areas
ana 1t. Gen. Alexander Patch's
seventh ; Army farther south fought
.h forbach and pushed to within
N'1ee miles of Saarbrucken.
,.! nillSh empire forces gained the
ai'iduVe on the smile northern
assault assault. front after two days spent
. a+tig fierce German counter.
s''ach I and drove forward up to
sod niile toward the vital Ruhr.
reo.s troops crushed the last Nazi
tte esl inside the rubbed for
" e1s CITY of Goch after two days
" WIG usIoooy house-to-house fighting.
t,o WIN sunshine flooding the bat
We zone, Field Marshal Montgorn-
h hao, forces drove the Germans
ro SeA al points two miles from the
c lyau center of Udem and cut the
vVen-Udem railway in a mile ad-
. .ance- On the west flank Scots
s scsa more than half-mile
s sssoSS flat, open country south
60 Oh captured Hommersum,
At Ca olans pounded and jabbed
German defenses outside Moy.
i bnia Key to the adjacent strong
,,glu OF Calcar, whose capture
Of w ,b Jay open a big stretch west
49, oae hhlne. Fifty Nazi battalions
bea a,oSlly elite troops-now mad
tbe en identified on this front, but
n e M. counter-assaults had failed
70 nv nalt the Allied drive.
all Inc a Roer river, behind which
Aniad part OF at least three great
ia s1a armies await the signal
Nod '- t on into the Reich, drop.
u 81 TWO more inches in the past
c',,n nourS and the speed Of its
; IN rent had decreased Is per cent
IN three days. ~ W.
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