35 Infantry Division (USA) near Pithiviers
Operating in concert with the 4th Armored Division, the 35th Infantry Division continued its attack.
A combined arms column sped past a concentration of German defenders at Montargis and raced 30 miles further to Sens, arriving unexpectedly and securing a crossing of the Yonne River.
Shortly thereafter the 35th Infantry Division and Combat Command B of the 4th Armored Division coordinated converging attacks that crushed the bypassed defenders of Montargis.
The 35th Infantry Division pushed on to secure the cities of Joigny and Saint-Florentin.
The division was the extreme right flank of General George S.Patton’s Third Army, and as it advanced oriented both south and east to secure it, stretching across extreme frontages as it did so.
On 25 August a combined arms column pushed into Troyes, and forced a crossing of the Seine River.
That same day Paris fell to the French 2nd Armored Division and the American 4th Infantry Division.
The Americans now held multiple crossings of the Seine River.