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Blood, History. Lieut. General Courtney Hodges' First Army, which aimed its main attack at Cologne, had slower going than the Ninth. The terrain was rougher and the resistance tougher. The First's men ran into counterattacks by two enemy armored divisions. Nevertheless they reached the Rhine two miles north of Cologne, and several divisions took up positions around the city, while heavy shellfire crashed into it. The 10th Infantry and 3rd Armored Divisions were the first outfits to break into the city limits...
Every day Lieut. General Courtney Hodges' First Army recovered further from its winter setback in the Ardennes...
Pressure in the Center. To many a doughfoot it must have seemed that the Germans were reacting slowly, that a rather big push was already on. Along a 40-mile front east of the Ardennes some six divisions of Lieut. General Courtney Hodges' First Army, some four of Lieut. General George Patton's Third Army, were clawing their way through the saw-toothed tank traps, over the concrete pillboxes of the Siegfried Line...
Bradley Resumes. SHAEF censors passed a dispatch hinting that General Omar Bradley had resumed command of his northern armies (relinquished to Field Marshal Montgomery after the German breakthrough), and there was another hint in the fact that Bradley last week pinned a decoration on Lieut. General Courtney Hodges, the First Army's commander. But Bradley was in no shape to resume his November offensive on the Roer. The western front was once more a battle for time-on both sides. Supreme Commander Eisenhower had to rebuild his offensive platforms as quickly as possible. The Germans had to continue delaying...
...this week the northern flank appeared to have been stabilized, at least temporarily. Heavy battles raged for the wedges the Americans had been able to hold in the Monschau-Malmédy-Stavelot area and to the west of Saint-Vith. But they were perilous triangular salients. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army had apparently stopped the spearhead closest to Liège, focal point of U.S. supplies...