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Battle of Fort Driant
Part of the Battle of Metz, World War II
An American P-47 Thunderbolt dive bombing Fort Driant before the initial attack
George S. Patton (Third Army) Walton Walker (XX Corps) Stafford LeRoy Irwin (5th Infantry Division)
Otto von Knobelsdorff (1st Army) Heinrich Kittel (Metz garrison)
Units involved
Third Army
XX Corps
5th Infantry Division
1st Army
Strength
10,000
1,300-3,000
Casualties and losses
64 killed 547 wounded 187 missing or captured Total: 798
unknown
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t
e
Siegfried Line campaign
France
Channel Coast
Dieppe
Le Havre
Dunkirk
Boulogne
Calais
Lorraine
Nancy
Dompaire
Arracourt
Metz
Fort Driant
Strasbourg
Belgium
Moerbrugge
Geel
Scheldt
Netherlands
Market Garden
Nijmegen bridgehead
Pheasant
Overloon
Broekhuizen
Germany
Hürtgen Forest
Aachen
Crucifix Hill
Geilenkirchen
Queen
Logistics
British
American
Transportation
Services and supply
The Battle of Fort Driant was a constituent battle in the 1944 Battle of Metz, during the Lorraine Campaign and the greater Siegfried Line Campaign. The battle was on occupied French territory between the forces of the United States Third Army under the command of General George S. Patton and the forces of Nazi Germany under General Otto von Knobelsdorff and was given the code name Operation thunderbolt.[1]
^"Patton's Lost Battle". 2018.
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