Word: haguenau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scramble for Safety. South of Trier, Patton's 26th and 94th Divisions slammed into the face of the German salient. Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army, with French units on the right, hit the south flank from Saarbrikken to Haguenau. Thus assaulted on three sides, the German First and Seventh Armies began a scramble to get across the Rhine. Allied tactical airplanes swarmed down on the crowded roads and resumed their familiar, pleasant pastime of smashing enemy transport. Some Germans clung to Siegfried Line defenses on the south flank; the longer they fought there, the more...
This week Balck was thrusting with tanks and flamethrowers into the Seventh Army's Maginot Line positions near Haguenau. It seemed likely that these harassments would continue at least until the Ardennes situation was stabilized. To Eisenhower, Balck's offensive was like a wasp snarling around a man who is trying to put out a fire...
Faced by this sudden threat to its rear, the Seventh withdrew from its two footholds in Germany. Then the Germans began shelling Haguenau, a main communications center in northern Alsace. On the west bank of the upper Rhine, they attacked the French around the Colmar pocket. And they threw tanks across the Rhine, north and south of Strasbourg...
...Sandy" Patch sent two columns into a pre-dawn assault without the usual artillery preparation, caught the Germans napping. In two days the Seventh's men had taken Haguenau, the enemy's anchor point along the Rhine, 16 miles above Strasbourg. Beyond Haguenau was the 25-mile-wide Rhine plain. If Patch's northward thrust could be developed, the whole Saar Palatinate area would be outflanked...
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