Private Venture WTO (id:#63587)

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Prior Publication: Wacht Am Rhein

Hoscheid, Luxembourg 1944-12-17 (46 others)

Overview:

Before dawn on 16 December the engineers of the Fallschirm-Pioniere Battalion 5 began ferrying the assault companies of Fallschirm Regiment 14 across the Our River. Their instructions were to head as rapidly as possible west to the river Clerf, establish a bridging site near Kautenbach and press on west to Wiltz to establish a blocking line behind the river Sûre, south of Bastogne. Their line of advance actually lay at the intersection of Lt-Colonel James Rudder’s U.S. 109th and 110th Infantry Regiments and immediately in their path at Weiler was Company I, 3rd Battalion 110th Infantry Regiment. Generalmajor Ludwig Heilmann’s orders to both his 14th and 15th Regiments called on them to bypass any pockets of resistance in the villages, leaving those to be mopped up later by his reserve 13th Regiment. One such village was defended by six 105mm and three 75mm Shermans from Company C 707th Tank Battalion and a part of the 110th Regiment’s anti-tank company.

Defender: American (Elements of C Company, 707th Tank Battalion supported by 110th A-T Company)  

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