Friday, September 7, 2012

September 7, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944:

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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