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...bank. The Ninth, which had reached its positions first, had been relatively quiet for a fortnight, obviously accumulating strength for a leap across. Now assured of a gory niche in military annals, the Roer was the toughest water line in front of the Rhine - the key barrier in this sector which both sides clearly regarded as crucial. The Germans had fought viciously to prevent the Americans even from reaching the muddy shore, and they could be expected to try even harder to disrupt a crossing...
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...
...Your Great Hour." But Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt was thinking too. His converse idea: to take off the Allies' pressure in the Düren-Jülich sector by a full-out attack even farther south. Just past his 69th birthday but by no means a tired old man, Rundstedt was reported to be at Coblenz, where he had assembled his best tactical brains in one headquarters. To his troops he proclaimed...
...Belgium, in a sector where the Allies had stood for nearly three months. On Sunday a column of 15 to 20 Nazi Tiger tanks, spearheading the new German drive, cut off a U.S. First Army unit which had only light weapons to defend itself. The Americans were quickly overcome; 143 were herded into a field with a few others the Germans had captured earlier. The Germans took away the prisoners' watches and any other possessions they fancied...
...fierceness and doggedness of German resistance on the sector east of Aachen were epitomized by their defense of a sports stadium outside the town of Jülich. U.S. Ninth Army headquarters last fortnight had airily ticked it off as one of "a few pockets of resistance" remaining to be cleaned up west of the Roer River. To the doughfoots of the 29th Infantry, who had to clean it up, it was quite a pocket...