Battle of Fort Driant

Battle of Fort Driant
	Part of the Battle of Metz, World War II
	; An American P-47 Thunderbolt dive bombing Fort Driant before the initial attack
Date	27 September 1944 – 13 October 1944
Location	Southwest of Metz, France49°04′22″N 6°02′49″E / 49.07278°N 6.04694°E
Result	German victory
Belligerents
United States	Germany
Commanders and leaders
George S. Patton; (Third Army); Walton Walker; (XX Corps); Stafford LeRoy Irwin; (5th Infantry Division)	Otto von Knobelsdorff; (1st Army); Heinrich Kittel; (Metz garrison)
Units involved
Third Army XX Corps 5th Infantry Division; ;	1st Army
Strength
10,000	1,300–3,000
Casualties and losses
64 killed; 547 wounded; 187 missing or captured; Total:; 798	Unknown

The Battle of Fort Driant was a constituent battle in the 1944 Battle of Metz, during the Lorraine Campaign and the greater Siegfried Line Campaign. The battle was on occupied French territory between the forces of the United States Third Army under the command of General George S. Patton and the forces of Nazi Germany under General Otto von Knobelsdorff and was given the code name Operation thunderbolt.^[1]