Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Germans were trying to take Strasbourg, they were in a fair way to lose Colmar. Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny, who last fortnight attacked the Colmar pocket on the south, last week began to squeeze it on both sides. With Tassigny's French First Army was a crack U.S. infantry division, which got bruised one day in a fight against Panther tanks. One doughfoot who hid in a rain barrel saw Alsatian villagers pointing out U.S.-held houses to the Germans. When he got back and told the story, Thunderbolts and artillery reduced the village...
Squeeze on Strasbourg. Liberated France, cold, hungry and disillusioned, waited tensely for news as the threat to her beloved Strasbourg increased from day to day. At Gambsheim, eleven miles north of Strasbourg, the Germans beefed up their bridgehead with men and tanks from across the Rhine. From it, they struck north, west and south. On the north, they joined with other Nazi units attacking Hatten-a village whose shell-torn, fire-blackened ruins had been fought over for more than a week-and thus established a front from Gambsheim clear across to the Lorraine salient south of Bitche. The blow...
From the big Colmar pocket south of Strasbourg, the Germans had already probed within ten miles of the city. Thus, in their 19-mile strip of the Rhine's west bank, the French defenders of Strasbourg were squeezed on both sides. At week's end the French in the Belfort-Mulhouse area attempted a diversion by smacking the Colmar pocket's broad southern flank. Launched in a heavy snowstorm, this attack cut a deep gash in the enemy lines before it was slowed...
...Germans wanted Strasbourg for its prestige value; the Allies wanted to hold it for the same reason. Strategically it was not worth a heavy commitment of reserves. But Major General Jean Delattre de Tassigny promised a last-ditch defense...
...Germans' 10th and 9th Armored Divisions, which had spearheaded the Ardennes offensive, suddenly reappeared in other sectors-one in the battle for Strasbourg, the other on the Third Army's front, south of Trier...