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Allied Forces Advance From Basalt to Roermond Front
Allied armies push toward the Rhine and Maas with heavy air and ground assault. Ninth Army under Hodges holds Stolberg and Hurtgen. Pattons Third Army nears Metz and Lignes toward the Roermond bridgehead. First French Army expands from Belfort toward the Swiss gap as British Second Army nears the Maas.
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U. S
First Army
Aachen
St. Lo
Normandy
George 5. Patton
Third Army
Metz
Cologne
Eschweiler
Duren
Stolberg
Hurtgen Forest
Hodges
Eisenhower
Maas
Holland
Ewen
Roermond
Dusseldorf
Rhine
Doubs River
Belfort
Switzerland
Patton
Morser
Luxembourg
Maginot Line
Horn
Dorf
West Wall
Simpson
Courtney H. Hodges