The road of Dabo

German troops withdraw on two lines of defence in the Vosges mountain : "Vor-Vogesen Stellung" (1st line) and "Vogesen Stellung" (main line of defence). General Leclerc ordered to colonel de Guillebon to breakthrough these lines in order to have open …

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German troops withdraw on two lines of defence in the Vosges mountain : "Vor-Vogesen Stellung" (1st line) and "Vogesen Stellung" (main line of defence). General Leclerc ordered to colonel de Guillebon to breakthrough these lines in order to have open way to Strasbourg. Two columns of the combat command were in charge of this breakthrough : the Minjonnet column was in the north facing the open country before the village of Voyer and the Massu column was in the south in front of the enclosed valley of Saint-Quirin. While Minjonnet was reducing a hard German Resistance in Voyer, Massu ordered to his infantry to capture the enclosed valleys leading to Dabo. At the end of the day, the infantrymen had made a breakthrough in the "Vogesen Stellung" and Massu sent the message : "Now, I can exploit".

Voyer, France

The liberation of Strasbourg took place on 23 November 1944 during the Alsace campaign in the last months of the Second World War. After the liberation of Mulhouse on 21 November 1944 by theist Armored Division, General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque and the 2nd Armored Division entered Strasbourg after having liberated Sarrebourg and La Petite-Pierre, which cleared the way to the city of Strasbourg.

Wikipedia: Liberation of Strasbourg

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