Word: ousseltia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fredendall hung on to the southern end of his front largely through the bluff put up by a handful of U.S. paratroops and. French infantry. The Allies concentrated most of their strength north around Pichon in the Ousseltia Valley region, where they expected the Nazis to attack. Allied reconnaissance never spotted the Axis power gathering to the south near Faïd Pass. Three hours before Rommel's tanks rumbled out of Faïd Pass, General Dwight Eisenhower himself was calmly making a tour of the front only a few miles away. Fredendall was unable to switch...
Other infantrymen have noted the strange behavior of Ousseltia Valley dogs. Captain Maynard Files reported that a white dog approached his hidden mountain observation post, pointed. A doughboy in a forward foxhole told of groups of three and four dogs roaming the valley in packs. Another soldier said that the dogs seemed to emerge from the same spot as if sent out by a trainer. The southern defeat (see below) postponed a real investigation of the Ousseltia dogs, but American soldiers know that the U.S. Army is also training dogs...
Passes & Pillboxes. Eisenhower's problem, complicated by the Axis attack, was to break through the Axis rim of defense on to the faster, smoother track of the plain. There were a number of roads through: the Ousseltia Valley, Sened, Faïd Pass. Until Rommel's determined Panzers can be rolled back, Faïd Pass was now effectually closed to the Allies...
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