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...there were other tasks that might have been tackled back of the 50-mile sector through which Rundstedt struck. There bridges were intact, roads were unharmed. A rail line operated from the Rhine nearly to the Allied line opposite Trier...
...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...
...grand strategic scale, the whole Allied effort between Luxembourg and Switzerland seemed also a diversion. It forced the Germans to protect the Saar, the Moselle approach to Trier and Coblenz, and the Lorraine gate to Karlsruhe, while the heaviest blows of the new winter drive are delivered in the north...
...Against Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army, near Trier, enemy attacks pushed back one sharp wedge penetrating his "sacred soil." But by this week General Hodges had turned this local German success into futility: the Americans had thrust farther north and east at another point, stood only 18 miles from the Rhine...
...Propaganda Minister Goebbels' roses, and refraining from indiscriminate bombing of Berlin despite urgent popular pull for it, the R. A. F. further pointed out that it had bombed scores of authentic military objectives, such as potential jumping-off spots for an invasion, railroad centres like Hamm, Ehrang (near Trier), Osnabrück, Brussels, air bases at Norderney and Den Helder, industrial plants like Bremen's Deutsche Schiffund Maschinenbau (shipbuilding), and three of Berlin's railroad terminals...