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It traces the strategic situation confronting the US First and Ninth Armies, sets out opposing commanders and force structure, and compares US and German operational plans. The narrative follows major actions such as the battles for Aachen, the Hürtgen forest struggle, the Ardennes prelude, and the campaign’s resolution as Allied advances resume after December 1944.","The Siegfried Line 1944 – 45  \nBattles on the German frontier  \nSteven J Zaloga • Illustrated by Steve Noon  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nINTRODUCTION  \nCHRONOLOGY  \nTHE STRATEGIC SITUATION  \nOPPOSING COMMANDERS  \nGerman commanders • US commanders  \nOPPOSING ARMIES  \nThe Wehrmacht • The US Army  \nOPPOSING PLANS  \nUS plans • German plans  \nTHE CAMPAIGN  \nThe first battle of Aachen • North of Aachen Encircling Aachen • The second battle of Aachen Prelude to Operation Queen: Hürtgen • Operation Queen  \nOperation Clipper: VIII Corps • Operation Queen: the December clean up The prelude to the Ardennes  \nTHE CAMPAIGN IN RETROSPECT  \nThe battlefields today  \nFURTHER READING  \nGLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS  \nOn September 13, 1944 Task Force X of the 3rd Armored Division penetrated the Siegfried Line near Aachen. Here, one of the division’s M4 tanks drives through some dragon’s teeth, the first layer of the Scharnhorst Line. (NARA)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe western frontier of the Third Reich was protected by the  \nWestwall fortifications, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line. The Allies began encountering the Siegfried Line in September 1944 after pursuing the retreating Wehrmacht through Belgium and the Netherlands. Fighting along the Westwall lasted for more than six months, with the final major operations in March 1945 in the Saar. All of the major Allied formations, including Montgomery’s 21st Army Group, Bradley’s 12th Army Group, and Devers’ 6th Army Group, were involved at one time or another in fighting against the Westwall defenses. However, the focus of this book is on the most concentrated and intense fighting along the Siegfried Line by the US First and Ninth armies, the campaign that epitomizes the grim battles along the German frontier. Given its nature as a historic invasion route towards Germany’s industrial heartland in the Ruhr, the Wehrmacht fortified the border area around Aachen with a double line of bunkers. The campaign in the autumn of 1944 and the winter of 1944/45 was one of the most frustrating and costly efforts by the US Army in the European theater in World War II, reaching its crescendo in the hellish fighting for the Hürtgen forest. Although the US Army finally broke through the defenses by the middle of December 1944 and reached the River Roer, the German counter-offensive in the neighboring Ardennes put a temporary halt to the fighting. It resumed in February 1945, culminating in Operation Grenade, the crossing of the Roer.  \nA pair of GIs take cover from the incessant rain under the rear of an M4 tank. They are from 2/60th Infantry, 9th Division, which teamed up with Task Force Hogan of the 3rd Armored Division to assault the village of Geich beyond the Langerwehe industrial area on December 11, 1944. (NARA)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHRONOLOGY  \n1944  \nSeptember 11 Reconnaissance patrol of the 5th Armored Division is the first to cross German border over the River Our.  \nSeptember 12 3rd Armored Division begins probes of Scharnhorst Line of the Westwall near Aachen.  \nSeptember 15 3rd Armored Division reaches Schill Line near Aachen.  \nSeptember 17 12th Infantry Division arrives near Stolberg; first substantial German reinforcements of the campaign.  \nSeptember 17 Operation Market Garden begins in the late afternoon in the neighboring 21st Army Group sector in the Netherlands.  \nSeptember 22 Hodges orders temporary halt to offensive operations due to lack of supplies. October 2 XIX Corps begins drive to breach Westwall north of Aachen.  \nOctober 8 VII Corps begins attempt to encircle Aachen and link with XIX Corps to the  \nnorth.  \nOctober 10 US Army issues surrender ultimatum to Aachen garrison.  \nOctober 11 Bombardment of Aachen begins.  \nOctober 13 Infantry assault into Aachen by 26th Infantry begins.  \nOctober 16 Encirclement of Aachen completed at 1615 hours near Ravels Hill.  \nOctober 21 German forces in Aachen surrender at 12","cbCaie459YTczIaQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie459YTczIaQ","pdf",61815313,1,178,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n# Chronology\n## The Strategic Situation\n## Opposing Commanders\n## Opposing Armies\n## Opposing Plans\n# The Campaign\n## Operation Queen\n## Operation Clipper: VIII Corps\n## Operation Queen: the December clean up\n# The Campaign in Retrospect\n# Further Reading\n# Glossary and Abbreviations","[{\"question\":\"What was the Siegfried Line, and when did Allied forces begin engaging it?\",\"answer\":\"The Siegfried Line was the Westwall fortification system on the western frontier of the Third Reich. 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