The Hell of Grussenheim

Attached for a while to the 2nd French Army Corps under the command of general de Monsabert, the 2nd French Armored Division was involved in the reduction of the Colmar's pocket. GT"V" (Combat Command of colonel de Guillebon) took part …

1945-01-28

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Attached for a while to the 2nd French Army Corps under the command of general de Monsabert, the 2nd French Armored Division was involved in the reduction of the Colmar's pocket. GT"V" (Combat Command of colonel de Guillebon) took part in the battle of Grussenheim, small village in the German hands of the 198.Infanterie Division. The French attack was on two axes, one column attacked on the west by crossing the Blind stream while another column which bypassed Grussenheim, attacked it by the south from the neighborhood of Jebsheim. The first attack failed because of the strong German defense, but tanks and infantry of 2nd French AD with the support of Foreign Legion infantry of 1st DFL, came into the ruined village and reduced the last German defenses. A last German counter-attack was repulsed during the next night. 2nd French AD left the 29th of January the battlefield known as the "most dreadful physical and moral trial of the whole campaign".

Grussenheim, France

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.

Wikipedia: Colmar Pocket

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