Video by Staff Sgt. Jarred Woods | Army University Press | 12.04.2019
Over a week-long period in September 1944, Lieutenant General George S. Patton’s Third Army attempted to cross an assault force at several points across the Moselle River to establish a bridgehead and then encircle three German Army divisions in the city of Nancy, France. With a plan that closely followed U.S. river crossing doctrine, Third Army’s XII Corps executed a wet gap crossing......
