U.S. tanks andvance through french forest.

U.S. tanks andvance through french forest. M-4 American tanks follow a path torn through a forest in France by proceding armor. Two U.S. Armies have carried their offensive directly from Alsace into the Reich. The Seventh U.S. Army crossed the Alsation border December 15, 1944, near Wissembourg, France, after contacting forces of the Third U.S. Army which had previously driven into the Reich in an offensive aimed at the Nazi industrial Saar basin.