Word: aachener
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...landed in Normandy, and will never forget it. The blood of foot soldiers reddened the sands of "Omaha Beach"; more than 740 men of one battalion were awarded the Bronze Star. Later the division took part in the Saint-L6 breakthrough. It blasted a path east to Aachen, fought through snowstorms and blizzards. At Rundstedt's breakthrough in December, with the 991h and the hardened 9th and 2nd, it held the Germans at a critical salient shoulder, cleared Bonn, then plunged south to join the bridgehead cut out by the 9th Armored Division at Remagen...
...southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
...units (of the Psychological Warfare Branch) had taken over. With the assistance of former Zeitung employes, the U.S. Army printed 620,000 copies of a new free, four-page paper for German civilians, the Frankfurter Presse. It was the third and largest U.S.-edited German language paper (others: in Aachen and Cologne), all edited by Hungarian-born Hans Habe (4 Thousand Shall Fall), now a U.S. Army captain...
...rmer, remnants of the 17th SS Division, elements of 32 different Wehrmacht outfits. After five days of desperate fighting, it fell, on Hitler's 56th birthday. The town (but not the stadium) was 95% ruined. Correspondents who had followed the Allied armies across Germany all the way from Aachen said they had never seen such total destruction...
...medieval werewolves that still roam through horror fiction, the Nazi Werewolves are partial to human flesh. "Brave as lions and cunning as serpents," they are a secret group of avenging terrorists, pledged to destroy both Allied invaders and German "traitors." Already they have assassinated the Allied-appointed Mayors of Aachen and Meschede (TIME, April 9) and killed three U.S. officers in Frankfurt...