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The NORDWIND offensive had breached the lines of the U.S. 7th Army at the Alsatian towns of Hatten and Rittershoffen. The 14th Armored Division was ordered to restore the main line of resistance; the first time in its operational history, it would be employed as a unit. Widely …

1945-01-13

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The NORDWIND offensive had breached the lines of the U.S. 7th Army at the Alsatian towns of Hatten and Rittershoffen. The 14th Armored Division was ordered to restore the main line of resistance; the first time in its operational history, it would be employed as a unit. Widely dispersed by the initial German onslaught, the division would have to reassemble in poor weather and the darkness of night. Approaching Hatten across the flat, open ground, the reinforcing Americans struggled against devastating automatic weapons, artillery, and anti-tank fire, but eventually gained a foothold at the edge of town.

Hatten, France

Operation Nordwind was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front. It began on 31 December 1944 in Rhineland-Palatinate, Alsace and Lorraine in southwestern Germany and northeastern France, and ended on 25 January 1945.

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