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From then on Bill was almost continuously in the thick of the fighting with one or another of our Armies-took his chances with our men at Cherbourg, Saint Lô, Avranches, Orleans, Nijmegen, Aachen, the Hürtgen Forest ("that was the nastiest fighting...
...were tired; they needed rest which they were not getting. The doughty 1st and 4th Infantry Divisions, which had held the shoulders of Rundstedt's salient, were still fighting last week (the 4th had been caught in the Ardennes while resting from the struggle for the Hürtgen Forest). At this time, they simply could not be spared. Their losses and those of other outfits had been almost fully made up. One division, which had had two regiments badly chewed up, got two complete new regiments. In addition to piecemeal replacements flowing through the usual channels, service units...
...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...
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...
Shell for Shell. Near Hürtgen, the U.S. artillery fire was so heavy that houses near the guns were lifted off their foundations, fell back in ruins. The Germans answered shell for shell. Doughboys bitterly asked correspondents if they were the ones who had written about a Nazi "ammunition shortage...