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way into the Factory in the afternoon, only to be driven out. Though our
artillery and tanks converted the buildings into a blazing mass of ruins,
the enemy held; prisoners reported that an intercepted radio message
had given them foreknowledge of the attack. Another attack before dawn
on the 12th likewise failed, and the 45th Division gave up the effort to
regain the Factory."
As the Allies gained air superiority and the Germans could no longer
reconnoiter by air, they depended more
and more on radio intelligence. This was especially true after the
Normandy invasion. But this means was not omniscient. In the fall of
1944, when General George Patton's army was preparing to bite out the
fortress of Metz, the German forces detected his preparations, largely
through radio. "Yet," wrote a German staff officer, "the actual attack on 8
November came as a surprise to the front line troops."
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