Word: stavelot
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...from the German past and take up the Bonn government on its offer to foot half the cost of their purchases. The State Museum in Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
...month the 82nd fought as infantry before it was pulled back to England to rest. In September it made another drop, this time in the Nijmegen sector in Holland. In December, near Stavelot, the 82nd fought on the northern side of the Ardennes bulge, while the loist staged its epic stand to the south, at Bastogne. The 82nd finished the European war fighting with the British Second Army at Wittenburg...
...there seemed no way to meet the German force. In front of the advancing enemy were only pathetic detachments of U.S. service troops, supply stevedores, civil-affairs officers, medics, clerks. Combat infantry to delay the attack was coming up to the Stavelot area, but U.S. tanks needed at least 40 hours to get there...
When, next day, Pete Quesada heard of the columns approaching Stavelot, he called for two volunteers to take a long chance: to fly their speedy Mustangs into the soup, trying to locate the enemy's forces. The names of the volunteers told something about the country they were fighting for: Captain Richard Cassady and 2nd Lieut. Abraham Jaffe...
Only after U.S. tank forces arrived in the Stavelot area the second day after the Ninth's attack did Quesada's men learn how effectively they had stopped that Nazi thrust. The German columns were in approximately the same positions they had been when the pilots found them, and they were still disorganized. No German tank ever got far beyond Stavelot...