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Lorraine campaign
Part of the Siegfried Line campaign, World War II
Date1 September – 18 December 1944
Location
Lorraine, France
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Lorraine campaign United States
Lorraine campaign France[1]
Lorraine campaign Germany
Commanders and leaders
George S. Patton Hermann Balck
Casualties and losses

55,182

  • 6,657 killed
  • 36,406 wounded
  • 12,119 missing

151 medium tank destroyed (only in 1944 sept)
49 light tank destroyed (only in 1944 sept)

Dozens M10 and M18[2]

75,000 captured

341 tanks destroyed

The Lorraine campaign was the operations of the U.S. Third Army in Lorraine during World War II from September 1 through December 18, 1944. Official U.S. Army campaign names for this period and location are Northern France and Rhineland. The term was popularized by the publication of the volume The Lorraine Campaign of the official history of the U.S. Army in 1950.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Dompaire
  2. ^ Norbert Számvéber, Armored battles in Lorraine, Arracourt, in the fall of 1944, Published: 2021 sept 1.

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