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Title
Compagnon D'Armes
Description
After repelling German counterattacks aimed at recapturing the high ground of the Vosges Forest overlooking the Alsace Plain, the 36th moved to clear the Germans from the towns approaching Colmar. The 141st Regiment, supported by a company of Shermans from …
Source
Publisher
Date
1944-12-18
Scenario#
42
Scenario Description
After repelling German counterattacks aimed at recapturing the high ground of the Vosges Forest overlooking the Alsace Plain, the 36th moved to clear the Germans from the towns approaching Colmar. The 141st Regiment, supported by a company of Shermans from the French 5th Armored Division had taken the fortress town of Kientzheim and now moved out on Kaysersburg to the west. After a battle between the French tanks and a few German vehicles, the 141st fought through Kaysersberg and captured an HQ containing a German colonel and his staff .
Location
Kaysersberg, France
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Colmar Pocket was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from November 1944 to February 1945, against the U.S. 6th Army Group during World War II. It was formed when 6th AG liberated southern and northern Alsace and adjacent eastern Lorraine, but could not clear central Alsace. During Operation Nordwind in December 1944, the 19th Army attacked north out of the Pocket in support of other German forces attacking south from the Saar into northern Alsace. In late January and early February 1945, the French First Army cleared the Pocket of German forces.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Colmar Pocket
Combatants
German
American

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