Word: aachen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Checks. Last week was payoff time. In the Siegfried Line before Aachen, U.S. troops captured hastily trained boys, old reservists, convalescents from the Russian front...
...Germany's manpower shortage was not as serious as her military disorganization. In 48 hours, the two-ply Siegfried Line at Aachen was broken in five places. Even with inadequate forces, a well organized enemy should have been able to hold that strong position for at least two weeks. Western Germany had been successfully invaded for the first time since Napoleon.* The soil of the Rhineland, Germany's storied, sacred frontier, lay just beyond...
Kited Cavalry. With ancient Aachen surrounded, the enemy belatedly rallied to counterattack. But at that moment of crisis came another. The first elements of Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton's paratroops plunged to battle behind the Nazi troops holding the German right flank...
After penetration of the Siegfried Line near Aachen, a combination of such fanatical defense and bad weather held the Allies along most of the line to small gains. The week's action demonstrated that: 1) properly manned, the West Wall would have held the Allies; 2) the Allies had prevented proper manning by the speed of their advance...
...demonstration took place in the town of Roetgen (pop. 2,300), near Aachen. Many of the townspeople had fled. Some were hiding in terror. Civil Affairs Officer Captain Gordon F. Thomas, of Brockton, Mass., drove in with five men, parked his jeep in front of the post office, established himself as judge, mayor and military boss...