PATTON SWEEPS ON; PLACING THE COLORS OVER A CAPTURED FORTRESS TOWN
3d Army captures Coblenz; clears Rhine from Boppard to St Goar; 4th Armored Div reaches Nahe River south of Bad Kreuznach; other units gain southeast of Trier and east of Saarburg; Patton shoves 10th and 11th Armored Divs into fight west of Moselle; several thousand Ger troops trapped in Moselle quadrilateral; Bradley congratulates Maj Gen Gaffey, 4th Armored Div comdr, on achievements; US 7th Army continues mopping up west of Saarbruecken; loosens Ger grip south of Wissembourg Gap; nears Niederbronn and Schweyen; cuts Bitche-Haguenau rd; clears Haguenau; 1st Army expands Remagen bridgehead; crosses Autobahn at several points; Gers rushing up reserves; Amers stand at edge of Ruhr plain at Huescheid; drive through Koenigswinter; take Strodt and clear Hoeningen; US planes blast Ger columns withdrawing toward Rhine crossings from Worms to Karlsruhe; maps
