bigpigeon.us webpage WWII-Germany > The ETO > War of Attrition > Lorraine/Alsace 1944, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 27 Dec 2022.
Portions of Lorraine and Alsace in northeastern France were not liberated in the fall of 1944, but remained under German occupation until March 1945.
Links to Big Pigeon's The ETO > War of Attrition > Lorraine/Alsace 1944 subpages:
The accompanying map shows northeastern France, now known as the Grand Est region.
  • The central part of Grand Est is historic Lorraine, with major cities Metz and Nancy.
  • The eastern part of Grand Est is historic Alsace, with major cities Strasbourg and Mulhouse.

 In late August 1944, as German forces retreated from northern France, XX Corps and XII Corps of General George Patton's Third Army, advancing eastward from southern Normandy, entered the Grand Est area.
  • XX Corps liberated Reims on 30 August, crossed the Meuse River, and stalled before Metz.
  • XII Corps liberated Troyes on 26 August, crossed the Meuse river and stalled before Nancy.
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The Grand Est Region of France
The Grand Est Region - northeastern France
Scalable Version
Meanwhile the US Seventh and French First Armies landed in southeastern France in mid-August 1944 and fought their way northward along the Rhone River Valley, liberating Lyon on 3 September, Dijon on 11 September, and Chaumont (on the above map) on 13 September. 

In early September, fuel shortages in the Third Army and developing German resistance in eastern Lorraine caused the Allied offensive in northeastern France to sputter. Not until late March 1945 would the last German forces be expelled from what is now the Grand Est region. 

​Follow the three links above for summaries of major military operations in northeastern France.
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