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Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt well knew which was the most vulnerable sector: the Aachen area where Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army had already sunk a spearhead aimed at the Cologne plain. The Germans had watched for nearly two months as the Americans moved in 1,000 guns, massed a whole new army-the U.S. Ninth of tall, bald, bowlegged Lieut. General William H. Simpson...
...Normandy, General Bradley tightened the pressure-on two relatively small areas, probing for a weak spot. On a 15-mile sector-from behind Geilenkirchen to the Aachen-Dürenhills-the German sky throbbed to the thunder of more than 4,000 aircraft, the German earth shook under the bolts of 10,000 tons of bombs, the blows of 20 tons of shells a minute. How any German could stand up to battle after the opening blow was beyond the belief of those who watched...
Expanding Pressure. But Germans did stand up to fight and die, to cling tenaciously to the German soil, to patch the breaches with more men against a grinding weight that expanded and extended northward to the British Venlo sector as the battle went through three smoke-clouded days and fiery nights...
...mile sector east of Aachen, battlewise First Army troops found they could lunge instead of slog. They lunged upon Eschweiler, nearly midway between Aachen and Düren and astride the six-lane Adolf Hitler Highway to Cologne, only 28 miles away. There the battle turned fluid. More Germans rushed to that gap in their dike, launched weak, futile counterattacks...
Three months ago an Allied arrival in force on this stretch of the Rhine would have produced the maximum of Nazi consternation. Now, the heavy Allied concentrations at the fulcrum of the whole attack in the west-the Cologne-Duisburg sector -reduced the French arrival on the upper Rhine almost to the status of a diversion...