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...crossing the Erft, the Ninth (six infantry and three armored divisions) wheeled north. The move appeared to achieve some tactical surprise. Big industrial towns fell like ripe fruit: München-Gladbach, Krefeld, Rheydt (birthplace of Propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels). Krefeld, with a peacetime population of 170,000, surpassed Aachen as the biggest prize yet in the west...
Nestling in the famed vineyard country of the Moselle Valley, Trier is the sort of town that tourists call "picturesque." It is an even more ancient town than Aachen,* the seat of Charlemagne; it is, in fact, the oldest town in Germany...
...biggest was Aachen...
From then on Bill was almost continuously in the thick of the fighting with one or another of our Armies-took his chances with our men at Cherbourg, Saint Lô, Avranches, Orleans, Nijmegen, Aachen, the Hürtgen Forest ("that was the nastiest fighting...
...northern France. Later the Ninth accepted the surrender of Major General Erich Elster, Nazi commandant of southwestern France, with 20,000 enemy troops. After it captured Brest, the Ninth disappeared from the public eye, and apparently from the German eye as well, until it slammed into action north of Aachen. In the grinding progress toward the Roer, it got its first solid battle experience...