Word: aachen
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...Armies. At little Stavelot (pop. 5,000) the Germans would be only 22 miles from Liege, vital U.S. supply point at the end of the line from Antwerp. If Liege with its rich booty fell to the Germans, the U.S. First Army would have to retreat from the whole Aachen-Duren area...
...this week, however, he gave no sign of preparing such a move. His salient was contracting, but it was shrinking around a hard armored shell-in which he might be regrouping for another thrust at Liège, main Allied rear base for the Aachen-Cologne sector. The first heavy German blow in four days was an assault by three divisions on the Bastogne corridor...
...From the Aachen salient to the Third Army's drive into Germany at Saarlautern, the U.S. lines were thinly held by divisions resting from combat. At the last minute, when ground reconnaissance finally picked up traces of a German concentration, the 101st Airborne Division was moved to Bastogne to strengthen the line along the German-Luxembourg frontier...
Everytime I read a headline, "Doughboys Invade Leyte," or "Aachen Entered By Doughboys" I see red. Even if we Americans have been the richest nation of the world are we not delusioning ourselves if we accept the term "doughboy" as a synonym for "American...
...fierceness and doggedness of German resistance on the sector east of Aachen were epitomized by their defense of a sports stadium outside the town of Jülich. U.S. Ninth Army headquarters last fortnight had airily ticked it off as one of "a few pockets of resistance" remaining to be cleaned up west of the Roer River. To the doughfoots of the 29th Infantry, who had to clean it up, it was quite a pocket...