Word: rtgen
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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...
...this week the Germans' hard crust had been definitely broken where Hodges' smashes north of Aachen had sunk in past Ubach and Beggendorf (see map). The crust south and east of Aachen (which was in peril of encirclement) showed signs of breaking in the Hürtgen forest area...