Monday, October 8, 2012

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.)

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