LIGHTNING THRUST
American Drive On Orleans (Received August 18,11.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 18. The lightning drive by General Patton’s armour for Orleans is described by Reuter’s correspondent with the Americans in a delayed dispatch. “The armour struck for the town,” he says, over flat cultivated country, through dozens ot villages and towns untouched by bombs and shells. The only opposition was from German snipers firing from the woods along the flank. The Germans fled without a fight for 60 miles down the road leading to Orleans. , “As the armour forged steadily ahead excited French peasnts raced over the fields to join others who gathered at eveiy crosroad to cheer and press flowers, fruit and wine on the troops. The Maqius at some towns lined the streets and saluted the Americans as they passed. “We reached a point 112 miles from Orleans before the guns of the leading armoured vehicles went into action.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 277, 19 August 1944, Page 7
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152LIGHTNING THRUST Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 277, 19 August 1944, Page 7
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