A victorious American army, having driven through Belgium almost unopposed, ran head-on into German soldiers on their own home ground, in some of the most rugged country in western Germany-and at the beginning of the worst fall and winter weather in decades. commanders nevertheless ordered units of as ma.
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In late 1944, American forces advanced into the hilly, heavily wooded H rtgen Forest southeast of Aachen, Germany.
A victorious American army, having driven through Belgium almost unopposed, ran head-on into German soldiers on their own home ground, in some of the most rugged country in western Germany-and at the beginning of the worst fall and winter weather in decades
