Word: climbach
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...mountain road out of the Alsatian village of Climbach was crawling with German supply trucks. Climbach had to be taken; a task force of infantrymen, tanks and tank destroyers of the 103rd Division set out to do the job. In a scout car, jouncing along at the head of the little column, was Lieut. Charles Thomas, a Negro company commander in the Negro 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion...
...ordered the emplacement of two antitank guns, called his junior officer and gave him cool and careful directions for bringing other guns into position to blast out the enemy. Only after he had everything in order did he allow himself to be carried from the fireswept hilltops. Climbach was taken...
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