NAZIS THROWN BACK
AMERICANS CLEAR COINCOURT LONDON, October 22. American infantry advancing on a six-mile front north of Foret de Parroy today cleared. Coincourt and threw the Germans back two miles in the direction of Dieuze, says Reuter’s correspondent with the American 3rd Army. The resistance was fairly strong but later slackened. A considerable number of Germans was taken prisoner.
The bombing of the Dieuze Dam • z resulted in the submerging of an area 10 miles long and upwards of one and a-half miles wide. Four other towns as well as Dieuze were flooded or submerged.
The Americans this morning opened an attack against Murselen, where heavy fighting is going on, says Reuter’s correspondent with the American Ist Army. The Americans’in the Aachen area buried more than 15,000 enemy dead. Fifteen hundred prisoners were taken in Aachen, 600 of whom surrendered with the garrison commander.
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Southland Times, Issue 25502, 24 October 1944, Page 5
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