From a point in the U.S. Third Army's deep thrust into Germany this week, TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson cabled:
The long steel fingers of the armored divisions along the whole front are now hooking into the vitals of Germany, stabbing furiously about, searching for the still-pumping heart. This is a mighty spectacle, compounded of all the power of the Allies, directed skillfully in a coordinated series of enormous amputations. It is also a long series of little scenes, like shots from a movie that have not yet been glued together into a dramatic whole. If you follow one of those steel fingers...