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The costly Battle of Hürtgen Forest seriously weakened Hodges’ First Army, with its extended front line unable to resist the German onslaught in the early hours of the Battle of the Bulge. The Big Red One and 9th Infantry Divisions had to depend almost entirely on replacements after Hürtgen, and the 4th and 8th Infantry Divisions also had big manpower gaps to fill.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II, in the Hürtgen Forest, a 140 km 2 (54 sq mi) area about 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Belgian–German border. [1]
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD. The most direct route to the dams lay through the Hürtgen Forest, a man-made forest preserve of densely packed fir trees in rough terrain. It was also one of the most heavily fortified areas of the Siegfried Line, some 200 square miles of dense woods, deep ravines, and high ridges.
Nov 15, 2006 · Battle of Hürtgen Forest: The 9th Infantry Division Suffered in the Heavily Armed Woods. The bitter and bloody experience of the 9th Infantry Division in the Hürtgen Forest in autumn 1944 should have been enough to warn Allied leaders that the German army wasn’t finished just yet. By Mark J. Reardon.
The Hürtgen Forest resembled the battle of the Argonne of World War I or Grant's battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War. All three produced horrendous casualties, but produced little in the way of tangible objectives. 'The Hürtgen was a worse American military tragedy than the Wilderness or the Argonne."63.
The most grueling battle in Europe from D-Day to V-E Day was fought in the H u rtgen Forest, south of the Aachen-Duren highway. With a mission of seizing the main road from H u rtgen to Duren, the 4th Division attacked through this forest on November 16, 1944. The enemy's strength had been completely underestimated.
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Mired in combat during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest of Germany, an American soldier wrote in December 5, 1944: “The road to the front led straight and muddy brown between the billowing greenery of the broken topless firs, and in the jeeps that were coming back they were bringing the still living. The still living were sitting in the back ...
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