New Tork Times 23-11-09: David P. Colley, How World War II Wasn't Won: "One Allied army, however, was still on the move. The Sixth Army Group reached the Rhine at Strasbourg, France, on November 24, and its commander, Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, looked across its muddy waters into Germany. His force, made up of the United States Seventh and French First Armies, 350,000 men, had landed August 15 near Marseille — an invasion largely overlooked by history but regarded at the time as “the second D-Day” — and advanced through southern France to Strasbourg. No other Allied army had yet reached the Rhine, not even hard-charging George Patton's"
