Word: aachen
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...month of fighting, artillery units hurled $156 million worth of shells at the Germans. At Aachen, in two weeks of bombardment, 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. shells were expended...
...General Eisenhower, pointing out that Aachen might have been taken sooner, said: "Today we are firing ammunition which we would not have used until next February or March if we had been content with a slower advance...
Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt well knew which was the most vulnerable sector: the Aachen area where Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army had already sunk a spearhead aimed at the Cologne plain. The Germans had watched for nearly two months as the Americans moved in 1,000 guns, massed a whole new army-the U.S. Ninth of tall, bald, bowlegged Lieut. General William H. Simpson...
...Normandy, General Bradley tightened the pressure-on two relatively small areas, probing for a weak spot. On a 15-mile sector-from behind Geilenkirchen to the Aachen-Dürenhills-the German sky throbbed to the thunder of more than 4,000 aircraft, the German earth shook under the bolts of 10,000 tons of bombs, the blows of 20 tons of shells a minute. How any German could stand up to battle after the opening blow was beyond the belief of those who watched...
...mile sector east of Aachen, battlewise First Army troops found they could lunge instead of slog. They lunged upon Eschweiler, nearly midway between Aachen and Düren and astride the six-lane Adolf Hitler Highway to Cologne, only 28 miles away. There the battle turned fluid. More Germans rushed to that gap in their dike, launched weak, futile counterattacks...