METZ FORT STORMED BY AMERICANS
ATTACK BY INFANTRY ;• Rec. 1.50 p.m. LONDON, October 3. . American troops tonight are storm- ... ing the inner- defences' of Fort Briant, . > which is a few miles from Metz on v ,„ the west bank of the Moselle, states correspondent with the - American Third Army. Fort Briarit 'is one of the key points in the de- ■ fence system of Metz. - Infantry' and tanks launched the as-. sault shortly before noon. Thunder-1 bolts dive-bombed the fortifications and artillery laid a heavy barrage. - The Americans slashed through a field of barbed wire 60,-feet in depth and . then forged on .under heavy fire from pill-boxes and bunkers. ... A correspondent of the Associated Press;of Great Britain says that the Americans, using flame-throwers, crossed the moat into Fort Briant. - -Last .week they reached the moat, but . :.;'were driven back. - *• Airmen plastered other forts in the .Metz chain east of. the Moselle this i afternoon. , .Our artillery barrage preceding the attack caused great fires' .and explosions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 6
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