Word: monschau
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General Hodges of the First Army struck the match. He attacked at Monschau, 20 miles southwest of Düren, where he was already across the Roer headwaters in the hills. Since this area is walled off from the Düren sector by the Hürtgen Forest and other difficult terrain, it did not seem that Hodges was attempting to roll up the German line, but to draw German strength from the north, thus reduce the enemy pressure at Düren and Jülich...