Word: dillingen
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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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