Word: 10th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ninth. The terrain was rougher and the resistance tougher. The First's men ran into counterattacks by two enemy armored divisions. Nevertheless they reached the Rhine two miles north of Cologne, and several divisions took up positions around the city, while heavy shellfire crashed into it. The 10th Infantry and 3rd Armored Divisions were the first outfits to break into the city limits...
Last week, when General Patton's Third Army approached Trier, the Nazis could not afford a heavy defense for the sake of prestige. Several hundred Germans battled briefly on the outskirts, then gave up Trier to the 10th Armored and 94th Infantry Divisions. The old cathedral was badly battered. The old caretaker said, "See what Hitler has done...
...Germans' 10th and 9th Armored Divisions, which had spearheaded the Ardennes offensive, suddenly reappeared in other sectors-one in the battle for Strasbourg, the other on the Third Army's front, south of Trier...
...Bastogne, soon after the German offensive began, hurried parts of two U.S. armored divisions-the 9th and 10th of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. In speeding trucks came almost the full strength of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagle" paratroops and glidermen whose toughness and contempt fot danger are legendary. Back upon Bastogne fell straggling groups from U.S. outfits that had been chewed...
North of Metz, the XX Corps welded several bridgeheads across the Moselle into one, engulfing Thionville, then launched a push which carried across the German border. The 3rd Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...