Fat Sparrows Atop Skyline Drive WTO (id:#63584)

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Prior Publication: Wacht Am Rhein

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

Overview:

General von Lüttwitz’s orders required Volksgrenadier Division 26 to establish bridgeheads across the river Clerf by nightfall on the 16th, so any enemy resistance had either to be subdued quickly or bypassed. As it turned out, the biggest stumbling block turned out to be the Company K, 3rd Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment and Company B, 103rd Engineer Battalion in Hosingen. The American defenders were simply too well dug in to be shifted easily and the close-range battle, with dozens of individual hand-to-hand encounters, swayed backwards and forwards all day. In the evening, four Shermans arrived from the 707th Tank Battalion, but failed to bring any rifle ammunition with them. The constant delays imposed by the defenders in the handful of villages along Skyline Drive forced KoKott to unleash his reserved Grenadier Regiment 78 whose 1st Battalion was thrown into the struggle for Hosingen, supported by a few Hetzers from Panzerjäger Abteilung 26.

Defender: American (Company K, 3rd Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment | Company B, 103rd Engineer Battalion | 707th Tank Battalion)  

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