Название: Road to Huertgen: Forest in Hell
Автор: Lt. Paul Boesch
Издательство: Lucknow Books
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 147
Размер: 7,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
During a seemingly interminable three months, from mid-Sep. to mid-Dec. 1944, six American infantry divisions-the 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th, 28th, and 83d-and part of the 5th Armored fought at one time or another in the Huertgen Forest. These divisions incurred 28,000 casualties, including 8,000 due to combat exhaustion and rain, mud, sleet, and cold. One division lost more than 6,000, a figure exceeded for a single World War II engagement-if indeed it was exceeded-only by the bloody Marine battle on Tarawa.