Biting Beeck WTO (id:#58592)

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Beeck, Germany 1944-11-30 (1 other)

Overview:

Their right flank partially protected by the 102d Division’s attack, troops of the 84th Division in the meantime held onto Lindern and continued to fight for remaining objectives. Though General Bolling had intended taking the high ground of Toad Hill (87.9) before the adjacent village of Beeck, the 10th SS Panzer Division’s 22nd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment made such a fight of it on Toad Hill that General Bolling ordered a simultaneous attack on Beeck. The village occupies a shallow hollow, but the Germans fought for it as if it were an elevation dominating the countryside. On the morning of the 30th, Company B, with four light tanks for support, was to jump off from their toehold and take the western half of the village. Company A would attack from the east.

Defender: German (SS) (Elements of 22nd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 10th SS Panzer Division)  

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