Completely cut off from the world in Hatten and Rittershoffen on January 11th, 1945, 2nd Battalion of the
Topics: WWII 79th Infantry Division, France, Alsace, Operation Northwind, 25thPanzergrenadier Division, WWII Rittershoffen Hatten, 14th Armored Division
The battle of Hatten was now on, the young and unexperimented German soldiers met until then by the US Troops had given way to
Topics: WWII 79th Infantry Division, France, Alsace, WWII - Alsace-Lorraine, WWII 315th Infantry Regiment, WWII Rittershoffen Hatten
Two once pretty Alsatian villages lost in the countryside. These words perfectly define Rittershoffen and Hatten, no one lives there
Topics: WWII 79th Infantry Division, WWII 315 Infantry Regiment, France, Alsace, Operation Northwind, Hatten, 25thPanzergrenadier Division, WWII 315th Infantry Regiment, WWII Rittershoffen Hatten
During the Saverne Gap battle it was the entire 79th Infantry Division which had been used, all of the elements without any
Topics: WWII 79th Infantry Division, Medal of Honor recipient, Medal of Honor, France, Alsace
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