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Nazi tanks, crunching west through the mud and sleet of Luxembourg and Belgium last week, gave the U.S. two separate setbacks: one on the Western front, one on the home front. The size of the military defeat would be measured some day in American soldiers killed, wounded, captured. The shape of the home front defeat was already obvious. U.S. civilians would begin a not-so-happy New Year by paying penance for incorrigible optimism...
...this week to make the first moves in his countermeasures. Up from the Saar area came large forces of Lieut. General George S. Patton's tank-heavy Third Army to strike at the Germans' southernmost penetration at Arlon and to drive into the German flanks in northern Luxembourg. The Nazi drive slowed; Berlin said Patton's blow was in heavy force...
...mile front, from gloomy, blood-soaked Hürtgen Forest to the eastern bulge of Luxembourg opposite Trier, the Germans finally smashed back. They struck with more weight and fury than they had mustered at any time since their ill-fated attempt to break the Allied line at Mortain, in Normandy...
Rundstedt also attacked, drove desperately and skillfully at Monschau, at the northeast corner of Luxembourg, and at two points farther south, not far from the Moselle. First Army headquarters declared that some penetrations were "sealed off" (a familiar cliché in German communiques), but the enemy slid away from the seal-offs, advanced alongside. Prisoners, of whom the First seized more than a thousand the first day, said they had been told they would be "in Paris by Christmas.'' Some Germans were so inflamed with savagery by the switch from retreat to attack that they murdered U.S. prisoners...
Heavy bombers from Britain tried to hamstring the push by attacks on the supply railheads at Cologne, Coblenz and Mainz. While SHAEF clamped a blackout on the exact locations of the fighting, Berlin claimed major breakthroughs and progress in Luxembourg and Belgium...