WAR AT GLANCE
September 7,
1944
FRANCE—
Supply lines catch up with
Patton; Third Army drives to Metz outskirts. Germans believed making first real
stand since rout from Normandy.
RUSSIAN" FRONT—
Reds, in Yugoslavia seek junction
with Tito's Partisans.
ITALY — Yanks push Germans back
to main defenses of Gothic Line.
PACIFIC—
Japan fears invasion.
ST. JOSEPH, MICH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944.
PATTON'S
3RD
ARMY
REACHES
NANCY,
METZ
1st Army Drives
Forward
From Meuse Line
On75-Mile Front
BULLETIN
LONDON, Sept. 7
(AP).—
CBS reported
unofficially from Rome today that American armies from north and south France had
joined forces at an undisclosed
point near the
German border. These were named as the forces of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's
Third army and Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's
Seventh army.
LONDON, Sept. 7 (AP) —
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third
army pounded forward on a broad front today toward the showdown battle of the
Siegfried Line, reaching
Nancy and driving a wedge into
the outskirts of Metz. two French fortress cities in the forefield of the Nazi
west wall.
To the north Lt. Gen. Courtney H
Hodges' First army built up a, solid 75-mile assault line and drove forward from
its Meuse bridgeheads in a wave similarly directed against the Germans' last
defenses protecting the homeland.
WAR AT GLANCE
September 7,
1944
FRANCE—
Supply lines catch up with
Patton; Third Army drives to Metz outskirts. Germans believed making first real
stand since rout from Normandy.
RUSSIAN" FRONT—
Reds, in Yugoslavia seek junction
with Tito's Partisans.
ITALY — Yanks push Germans back
to main defenses of Gothic Line.
PACIFIC—
Japan fears invasion.
NIPPON
CHIEFS
FEAR
INVASION
Hirohito Warns
Diet That
War Situation
Has Become
More Intense
(By Associated
Press)
Emperor Hirohito warned the Japanese
Diet today that the war situation was "becoming more intense" and
Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso said the empire must concentrate to the it’s total power
to combat American attacks and possible invasion
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