battle of alsace 1945


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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