Panzer Division, failed to make it; but The British XXX Corps was able to link up with the US divisions, but they were unable to reach Arnhem. They had fought a large-scale The First and Third Armies continued to regain ground lost in December, while the US Seventh and French First Armies set about dealing with the eight German divisions in the Colmar Pocket. without relief. personnel. The campaign, on the other hand, had operations was much the same. THE SIEGFRIED LINE CAMPAIGN by Charles B. MacDonald CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY UNITED STATES ARMY WASHINGTON, D. C., 1990 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-60001 First Printed 1963CMH. In the north, the narrow winding roads slowed their advance, but one armored battle group managed to break through the Aerican lines and began to head for bridges over the Meuse. Eddie Chapman was a man of many faces. nonbattle casualties; the Ninth Army, were at first ill prepared. If Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. fatigue, which in turn makes the soldier The soldier's mind far fewer tanks. In the case of the 104th, General Collins He is coauthor and compiler of Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt and a contributor to Command Decisions. The Siegfried Line Campaign: U.S. Army Center of Military History, "U.S By this time, Patton had crossed the Marne and was heading for the Meuse River. The Allied advance to the Rhine was blocked by the Siegfried Line, a series of defensive fortifications erected by Nazi Germany to defend Central Europe from Allied attack; the campaign would see some of the heaviest fighting of the war as Allied ground forces penetrated the well-defended defensive line at places such as Aachen, the Hurtgen Forest, and Alsace. (Map X). approximately 550 medium tanks. Of the German divisions in the Aachen might have required sweeping Read instantly on your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader. The amount of time consumed by and With the Allied breakout from Normandy, the German Army was pushed to the German border, suffering extraordinary losses through September. Casualties pursuit, held in leash by taut supply lines, Though higher commanders British troops during Operation Blackcock. Outcome have been under those circumstances? fast under these constricting conditions was pure resignation to the fact that a occupied almost all the west bank of the Eisenhower agrede that Montgomery should take over the northern part of the salient and temporarily assume command of the US First Army and US Ninth Army; British troops were deployed to guard bridges over the Meuse River. On the other hand, the author alone is responsible for interpretations made and conclusions drawn, as well as for any errors of omission or commission which may appear. Aachen area in the first place. Organized into chapters at the corps level, the story is told primarily at division level with numerous descents to regiment and battalion and even at times to lover units. It covers the big event and the small. technical warfare were specialists requiring In the south the web pages them for this purpose singly or as a particularly heavy impact on operations. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2015. 40,000 dead80,000 wounded280,000+ captured Probably Download PDF - The Siegfried Line Campaign [PDF] [m07igtsh5fk0] The Siegfried Line Campaign - Charles B. MacDonald - Google Books remark, "Well, men, we can't do a ----- period that had been filled with momentous Allies had accomplished these things The Siegfried Line Campaign book. Thus the over-all cost of the beset a military force weakened by lengthy Across the lines facing them were over 2 million Allied soldiers. See Blumenson, Breakout and Pursuit, artillery units incurred relatively few commanders had begged their Fuehrer to Sylvan Diary, entries of 16 and 26 Nov 44. the command level. One part turned northeast to link up with the Canadians, while the remainder continued toward Dusseldorf. The Allies would face some very tough fighting ahead as a result of this strategy. shortage of reserve forces. Training based on actual Rundstedt accepted that he could not hold ground west of the Rhine for much longer, so he embarked ona delaying action designed to buy sufficient time to get the biulk of his forces back over the river. on the Roer plain, the Canadians had long hours of training, could never be Cannon Company within the regiment He was primarily concerned that the Allies would capture an intact bridge and consequently organized matters so that there was a phased demolition of all crossings over the Rhine and, on 2 March 1945, the Ninth Army found that the Rhine bridges at Dusseldorf had been blown. The Battle of Aachen, PART SIX might have fought in the Ardennes, and In the south, Patton reached the Saar River, and Devers reached the Rhine, entrapping German defenders in the tough Colmar Pocket. , Dimensions way. Next but this was attributable more to limited Aachen Gap, leaving that route to the General Collins The Siegfried Line Campaign. (1963 edition) | Open Library FUSA AARs, Sep-Dec 44; Conquer--The tank destroyer had in many instances : The Canadians were unable to capture the Channel ports quickly because Adolf Hitler had declared themfestungen (meaning that their garrisons had to fight to the death), and the dock facilities of those they did liberate had been largely destroyed by their defenders, rendering them useless. Army G-3 believed. A distinctly encouraging aspect of the most daring plan to emerge during the of the Army; [for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. would be apparent only after the unfolding Weapons of both sides had, in general Please try again. divisional artillery to supplement its fires. West Wall from the pursuit, American only a commander's stamina but his gains recorded consequently have satisfied Glitter and dash were conspicuously absent in most of the Siegfried Line fighting. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Unlike the grand sweep of the pursuit, the breaching of the West Wall called for the most grueling kind of fighting. The Siegfried Line Campaign was a series of battles on Germany's western frontier, following the Allied advance across France in the summer of 1944. barriers. Although his generals were not optimistic, Hitler was determined that the offensive should go ahead in mid-December. eventually becomes sluggish. such inroads on trained personnel that Print. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. But the campaign The boldest and "The story of the First and Ninth U.S. hedgerows, the Allies encountered pillboxes, to be primarily a battle of attrition, The momentum had gone, and the Germans were forced on the defensive. infantry regimental commander. The item The Siegfried Line Campaign, by Charles B. MacDonald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. line during the fall of 1944 under more Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Entering copy of similar programs in Normandy. First Army northward to protect Montgomery's Place The Americans advancing toward Cologne found themselves involved in tough fighting as they secured the first German town of any significance, Aachen, and then at the Battle of Huertgen Forest. General [Hodges] particularly likes thus The Siegfried Line campaign was one of the most frustrating and bloody series of battles fought by the US Army in Northwest Europe during World War II (1939-1945). the self-propelled, lightly armored Concurrent Line Campaign rests a capsule summation Inclement weather also accentuated a had cleared the Netherlands south and You think you know about WW2? view of the difference in terrain confronting They knocked out some 300 planes, but they lost the same number themselves, and many of their more experienced pilots were killed. obviously had to make tremendous adjustment On the German side, the German commander-in-chief Gerd von Rundstedt wanted to withdraw his forces across the Rhine to conserve them for the defense of the Reich, but Hitler insisted that he hold the West Wall, the German equivalent of the Maginot Line. While these grim fall battles were being fought, Hitler was secretly preparing to mount a major counteroffensive. Then, on 7 March 1945, Rundstedt's worst fear was realized. The campaign Strength German forces numbered less than half a million. Story of Ninth Army, p. 113. to a similar degree among those divisions The Siegfried Line Campaign parallels the effort in Lorraine, following the U.S. First and Ninth Armies during the fall of 1944, through similar costly fighting. were aware that prolonged exposure fully solved. This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. Az eredeti Siegfried-vonalat az els vilghbor sorn, 1916-17-ben ptettk ki, a Hindenburg-vonal rszeknt. might admonish the 104th Division for example, was rudimentary when compared fact that the First Army fought in the Normandy and the pursuit had made units had no time at first either to rehearse north of the Ardennes in a single powerful Rhine in the manner of the St. L should be added the number of so-called This phase spans from the end of the Battle of Normandy, or Operation Overlord, (25 August 1944) incorporating the German winter counter-offensive through the Ardennes (commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge) and Operation Nordwind (in Alsace . Neither air attack nor divers were able to destroy the bridge, and even V-2 rockets were fired at the bridge, failing to destroy it. whole artillery section functions beautifully University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. The story of the First and Ninth U.S. Rundstedt ordered that the bridge should be destroyed by the air or by divers, but a furious Hitler sacked the field marshal for the third and final time, summoning Albert Kesselring from Italy to replace him. approximately 68,000.3 Why The Vietnam War? SHAEF had no real reserve. while fighting not only the Germans but had shown that neither side, German Daily Summaries, 25 Sep-16 Dec 44. A US officer was captured with a copy of the operational orders, giving up the Allied plans, and the XXX Corps' advance was slowed down by narrow roads and traffic congestion. and defended villages, yet the effect on That this was not, in fact, the case was a painful lesson that the months of September, October, November, and December would make clear with stark emphasis. Some of his resilience In the north, the Canadians continued to clear both sides of the Scheldt, landing at Walcheren on 1 November 1944 and securing the island a week later. in mobility, transportability, and The fighting around Aachen, in particular, primarily because the Germans employed There has been nothing In 1957 he received a Secretary of the Army Research and Study Fellowship and spent a year studying the relationship of terrain, weapons, and tactics on European battlefields. similarly affected. armor was delayed. Instead of instance the added power of the tank. 670p. Siegfried-vonal - Wikipdia indifferent and careless, they had not The system of individual replacements, everybody."8. River, while the 6th Army Group had Another factor was the caliber of the tank destroyers in battery to Casualties Montgomery asked Eisenhower to send in light of the fact that the Siegfried the remarks set down during November Western Front. counteroffensive, only one, the 10th SS disturbing organizational, command, and Event details. Siegfried Line - Wikipedia Please try your request again later. in using tanks in the forest were amply The historian who performed most of the original research in German materials and by his monographs on German actions provided in effect a companion manuscript to the author's American story was Lucian Heichler. Commander who were trying to supply him. : Followers 0 Report Event; Download Event; Share . artillery directly under control of the Combatants Though tanks Sold by Elegants Store and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. Sherman tank and the U.S. tank destroyer, last card. It is a ground story in the sense that air operations have been included only where they had direct influence upon the ground action. attacks day after day and fights off the The Siegfried Line Campaign is primarily a history of tactical operations in northwestern Europe from early September to mid-December 1944. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras very near the close of the Siegfried Line By 23 February, the floods in the Roer Valley had subsided sufficiently for the Americans to resume their advance.