On this day, 81 years ago, September 15, 1944 (July 28, 1944 in the lunar calendar), the US military broke through the defense line and entered Germany. General Omar Bradley On September 15, 1944, the war finally broke out on German soil. The First Army led by U.S. General Omar Bradley broke through the Siegfried Line east of Aachen and was stationed on the outskirts of Cologne on the Rhine River. This allowed American infantry to approach the Ruhr industrial area, the headquarters of the German Empire. Although this good news dwarfs other reports, the offensive in the south is also progressing smoothly. General George S. Patton's Third Army has defeated the forces of Nancy Chams and Epinale on its right flank in the past 24 hours. The foundations of the German defense line on the Moselle have been destroyed.