Word: dillingen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swooping down on a bridge at Dillingen, east of Ulm, the U.S. Seventh Army's 12th Armored Division ripped the fuse out of a 5,000-lb. demolition charge under the bridge, crossed the Danube River and pressed on toward Augsburg. On the road beyond Nurnberg. other units of the Seventh were more than halfway to Regensburg...
...apparently to be another Aachen, a building-to-building battleground. Saarlautern, the area's second city, was already a flaming ruin-the target for more than 6,000 German shells, because Major General Harry L. Twaddle's 95th Division had seized its chief bridge intact. In Dillingen, where Patton's men had overrun a major steel plant, the Americans were able to advance only a few hundred yards in five days. Dillingen was part of the Siegfried fortifications, bristling with ingeniously placed pillboxes. For each one reduced there seemed to be two more ahead...
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