Decision at La Gleize WTO (id:#56126)

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La Gleize, Belgium 1944-12-19 (56 others)

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Overview:

The picturesque village of La Gleize, situated on a small promontory some 700 yards north of the Ambléve river, commanded the road north to Spa, those leading west to Stoumont and Cheneux, and those going south to Trois-Ponts and Stavelot where the main body of SS-Panzer Division 1 was laboring to catch up with Kampfgruppe Peiper. La Gleize was thus the linchpin of Peiper’s defenses, and throughout the fighting he retained a significant portion of his forces in that area. When on the morning of the 19th the Americans first detected enemy activity around La Gleize, the commander of the 117th Infantry Regiment moved his Company K to Cour and Company L to Roanne, allotting each some Sherman tanks for support. In the afternoon, the first platoon of GIs to arrive at Roanne was ordered to push on toward La Gleize, some 2000 yards to the southeast, to reconnoiter the situation there.

Defender: German (SS) (Kampfgruppe Peiper)  

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