 Still, by 11 April 7th Army had penetrated the German defenses in-depth, especially in the north, and was ready to begin its wheeling movement southeast and south.Thus, on 15 April when Eisenhower ordered Patton's entire 3rd Army to drive southeast down the Danube River valley to Linz, and south to Salzburg and central Austria, he also instructed the 6th U.S. Army Group to make a similar turn into southern Germany and western Austria.Advancing along this new axis the Seventh Army's left rapidly overran Bamberg, over east of the Rhine, on its way to Nuremberg, about to the south.