Although battered and weary from grueling combat in the Hürtgen Forest, the division held its ground as a bulwark against the German 5th Panzer Army. Their resistance delayed the German advance ...

Flanked by the 7th Army to the south, the 5th and 6th Panzer Armies were to break through ... As well as giving the Allies a nightmarish reminder of the German skills in blitzkrieg tactics ...