Lorraine campaign

Lorraine campaign
Part of the Siegfried Line campaign, World War II
Date 1 September – 18 December 1944 Location Lorraine, France Result Allied victory
Belligerents
United States  France[1]	Germany
Commanders and leaders
George S. Patton	Johannes Blaskowitz Hermann Balck
Casualties and losses
55,182 6,657 killed 36,406 wounded 12,119 missing 151 medium tank destroyed (only in 1944 sept) 49 light tank destroyed (only in 1944 sept) Dozens M10 and M18[2]	75,000 captured 341 tanks destroyed

The Lorraine campaign was the operations of the U.S. Third Army in Lorraine during World War II from September 1 through December 18, 1944. Official U.S. Army campaign names for this period and location are Northern France and Rhineland. The term was popularized by the publication of the volume The Lorraine Campaign of the official history of the U.S. Army in 1950.^{[citation needed]}