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American soldiers faced no greater odds under such harrowing conditions in World War II than did the riflemen, machine gunners, and mortarmen who struggled through the Hürtgenwald. “The forest up there was a hell of an eerie place to fight,” reported Technical Sergeant George Morgan, an armorer-artificer of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment.
After World War II, Germany was divided into four occupation zones: a British zone in northern Germany, a US zone in southern and central Germany (with the Bremen Enclave), a French zone in western Germany, and a Russian zone in eastern Germany – which would later become the German Democratic Republic (GDR) or East Germany. Berlin and Austria were also each divided into four zones.
Jan 1, 2012 · From mid September 1944 until the 9th Februari 1945, the U.S. Army fought it’s longest single battle ever recorded, also it’s longest battle on German soil, over an area of 50 square miles, now known as the battle of Hürtgen Forest. As a preliminary offensive for “Operation Queen” and with the main goal called “objective Schmidt ...
Beginning in 1938, the Nazis increased their territorial control outside of Germany. By 1942, three years into World War II, Nazi Germany reached the peak of its expansion. At the height of its power, Germany had incorporated, seized, or occupied most of the continent. However, also in 1942, the Allied Powers started to systematically bomb Germany.
Undeterred, 1st Lt. J.A. Macaulay decided to try and “jump” his tank across the crater. He gathered speed and roared down the muddy road. But the tank fell short, slammed into the far wall of the crater, and fell over on its side, disabled. American M-10 tank destroyers crawl up a muddy road through the forest.
May 7, 2013 · IN LATE OCTOBER 1944, the U.S. First Army set up its winter headquarters in the Belgian town of Spa. A flourishing resort since the 1500s—the German travel-guide publisher Karl Baedeker had called it “the oldest European watering-place of any importance”—Spa reached its zenith in the 18th century with visits by Peter the Great and other potentates keen to promenade beneath the elms or ...
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Battle of Hürtgen Forest. 19 Sep 1944 - 10 Feb 1945. Contributor: C. Peter Chen. Located at the border of Germany and Belgium, the Hürtgen Forest was a wooded area 50 square miles wide that provided another possible corridor for the Allies to thrust into Germany. Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges' First Army, charged with taking the densely ...
