What We Learned From… The Battle of Schmidt, 1944
Dec 22, 2020
2 minutes
By David T. Zabecki
n Nov. 2, 1944, the U.S. 28th Infantry Division moved to capture the town of Schmidt, which controlled many key roads through Germany’s Hürtgen Forest. The hilly and impenetrably wooded was the last major physical barrier before the wide and flat plain leading directly to the Rhine was on the verge of collapse. That assumption turned out to be a bad one.
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