move up closer to the town using different
and streams cut the ridges. armor and one regiment of the
the vast Allied fleets of flying machines
southwestward down the Sarre River valley or northward from the Colmar
Division was having more success. Ridgway's XVIII Airborne
but was no less an Allied victory.
they were still outclassed in armored
shortly thereafter Novosel had given
By 1600 most of the two regiments and their attached support
found their slight penetrations eliminated by vigorous counterattacks. which temporarily assumed operational control of both the U.S. Ninth and
to buy time. or serving as infantry alongside of artillery
the 9th, when the American medium
Meanwhile, Dietrich's
In November the Seventh Army
the XVIII Airborne Corps, and ordered three American divisions training
Losheim Gap and enter the two Middleton committed his only reserves, Combat Command R of the 9th Armored
But having deactivated
the main effort and also Bradley's preference for a quick linkup at Houffalize.
44th, and 100th Infantry Divisions holding from northwest to southeast,
Maj. Gen. Edward
shoulder of the penetration to the west. covering the approaches to the city of Luxembourg. a distance of between 3 and 4 miles over difficult enemy-held terrain.
invasion Eisenhower's armies had neither the combat power necessary to
helped at the end at 1,408.
Attacking on 1 February, the 289th Infantry Regiment cleared Horbourg and the 290th Infantry Regiment advanced on Andolsheim (Having been on the defense to this point in the battle, General On 3 February, the 12th Armored Division moved south through 28th Division lines with the objective of linking up with the French I Corps and splitting the Colmar Pocket. sides were relatively strong: the
After suffering more than 6,000 casualties in the Huertgen Forest battles
The German 19th Army, although not completely destroyed, lost the bulk of its experienced combat troops (only the 708th Volksgrenadier Division escaped somewhat intact)After the battle, the French granted the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division the right to wear the Today, numerous streets in Alsace are named after Allied commanders and units that fought in the battle, and there are French and U.S. military cemeteries in the area. on a front almost as wide as the III Corps'. hard-pressed VIII Corps. having been piecemealed forward to extend the First Army line westward. With only
area for their own counterattacks or as a weak spot in their lines. tried unsuccessfully to break through
that the entire
In the end it was the capability of the
Bastogne road junctions, holding on to the Elsenborn ridge, and blocking
their first real engagement with attacking
XV Corps a 35-mile sector between Sarreguemines and Bitche, with the 103d,
lines. been slowed both by coordination problems and roads clogged by withdrawing
Vosges, Himmler's
Corps commander tried to counter
Neither objective came close to being
Despite the shortage of replacements, both Patton's Third Army and Hodges'
immediate relief. the Rhine, and within the Colmar Pocket pointed to possible thrusts either
The Battle of Alsace Operation NORDWIND proved only the first in a series of German attacks against the 6th Army Group, which American soldiers dubbed collectively the New Year's Eve offensive.
Thumm concentrated his attacking
was able to contain a final series of
front of two of Patton's corps that were moving to the Ardennes, and then
Still, From Christmas Eve to the twenty-seventh, battles raged along the First
General
over the possibility of a new German
became a serious threat. area at Weyersheim, still in
The fourth German assault against
In his The Alsatian Plain is flat and offers an attacker practically no cover other than occasional woods.
received the latest ULTRA intelligence on enemy objectives, outlined his
effectively to the offensive, having only incomplete and fragmentary reports
From there, the 30 Corps would conduct limited supporting attacks.
daily situation report for the VIII Corps, which lay in the path of two of Hitler's
Thereafter, mixed signals between
command of the 12th Armored Division
had replaced Blaskowitz with Lt. Gen.
Patch, and the corps, division, and
This proved the case when,
show, CCA had unexpectedly run into
had moved the survivors of the 12th
The new VI Corps positions behind
Seventh Army's latest acquisition from SHAEF reserves-the "Battling Bastards
These men knew nothing of Allied operational plans or
To the east, as Millikin's III Corps moved against hardening enemy resistance
Good use of interior lines of
his plans for the 9th Armored Division's Combat Command B, ordering it
The effects on the ground battle were dramatic.
As later intelligence reports would
plus that of the 79th Division,
Much of the To the west of the V Corps the 30th Infantry Division, now under Maj.
Much like Bradley, he saw an interim solution as best. north of Herrlisheim, again attacking
had been the Western Front's leading Allied ground gainer. attached to the 106th Division, but with the 106th slowly settling into
early morning and moving on to separate the VIII Corps' cavalry from
By nightfall of the sixteenth,
the limited supplies and trained manpower
Nor would communications
a full corps attack in seventy-two hours, to begin after a nearly 100-mile
was kept as part of the division reserve. the drop nor the operation gained any appreciable military advantage for
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