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Tango01 | 31 Jan 2020 8:31 p.m. PST |
…. Biggest U.S. Losses "Gray clouds hung low, and a steady drizzle dripped through the tall fir trees of the Hürtgen Forest along the German-Belgian border early on the morning of Thursday, Nov. 16, 1944. As sporadic artillery volleys thumped in the distance, batches of shivering German soldiers ventured from the forward foxholes and bunkers of Lt. Gen. Hans Schmidt's 275th Infantry Division, scouting for signs of an expected American attack. Less than a mile away men of the 22nd U.S. Infantry's rifle and weapons companies rolled up their blankets and ate breakfast. Commanding the regiment was 42-year-old Colonel Charles T. "Buck" Lanham, a wiry, graying graduate of West Point's Class of 1924 who led from the front and expected the same of subordinates. The 22nd was responsible for a three-mile front in the Hürtgen, a 50-square-mile inverted triangle of trees roughly bounded by the German towns of Aachen to the west, Düren to the east and Monschau to the south. When all was ready shortly after noon on November 16, the 22nd Infantry's lead companies waded across the Roter Weh stream and began climbing a fir-clad ridge toward the Rur River plain some five miles ahead. Writer Ernest Hemingway, a friend of Lanham's attached to the regiment as a correspondent for Collier's, described the forthcoming campaign as "Passchendaele with tree bursts," while historian John S. D. Eisenhower wrote that the battle "stands in history comparable to the Argonne in World War I."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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