October 8,1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, OCTOBER 8, 1944:

Kingsport, Tenn.,-Sunday, October,8, 1944

Advance Made

Along Tight

6-Mile Front

Supreme Headquarters Allied

Expeditionary Force •—AP—

Doughboys of the U.• S. First Army cracked German defenses wide open along a six-mile front north of Aachen Saturday and swept up six German towns in a high-powered three-mile drive that encountered wilting resistance. The Americans overran Beggendorf, Basweuer, -Herbach, Merkstein, Hbfstadt, and. Alsdorf as they hammered to a point five to six miles inside Germany in the onrush that .was described by an American staff officer as a definite breakthrough. The U. S.. troops are meeting less artillery,-fire_ and weaker opposition, field dispatches reported.Saturday night.

Tanks, infantry, artillery and supplies poured into Germany through the gap torn by the Americans. Planes and tanks battered at the enemy as the U. S. advance units pressed ahead.

Nearly 7,000

Planes Take

Part In Raid

British Win

Peloponnesus

Road To Berlin :

Western front 302 miles (from :

north of Venlo.) . , '

Russian front 310 miles (from

Warsaw.)

Italian front 562 miles 9from

south of Bologna.)