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Patton's Pawns
2008,2007
Overview
The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed
late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred
university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled
together from various domestic postings with unfortunate
consequences for mutual trust and respect. Initially used as
part of the force blockading the Brittany ports after D-Day, in
December of 1944, the division was incorporated into General
Patton’s Third Army south of the Moselle-Saar Triangle,
the base of which was a portion of the Siegfried Line known as
the Orscholz Switch. Its first combat experience came in
battalion-sized attacks during that terrible winter while the
Battle of the Bulge raged to the north, and the Division
suffered heavy casualties, many due to the ferocity of the
winter weather. Patton, with characteristic zeal, excoriated
the division’s officers and senior NCOs for the rate of
non-combat casualties. Thereafter, the division was ordered
forward on an all-out assault to break through the Siegfried
Line. After horrific fighting against entrenched defenders,
with ice turning to mud as spring approached, on February 19,
1945, the 94th broke through to open the roads to Trier and the
Rhine. This book is the most comprehensive study to date of the
fierce fighting between the 94th U.S. Infantry Division and
their German counterparts during that spring of 1945. It sheds
new light on the achievements of the outnumbered division in
penetrating Germany’s Westwall. With characteristic verve
and detail, Tony Le Tissier narrates the action and illuminates
the tribulations and sacrifices of American soldiers who won
their laurels at great cost.
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Subject
ISBN
9780817315573, 0817315578, 0817357262, 9780817357269
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