#st. vith

[carbone14]

Chars M4 Sherman de la 7e Division blindée américaine en position défensive à l'orée de la forêt près de Saint-Vith - Bataille de Saint-Vith - Bataille des Ardennes - Saint-Vith - Belgique - 20 décembre 1944

©US Army Center for Military History

[hjmarseille]

An essential component of combined-arms tactics was artillery support from the armored division’s self-propelled field-artillery battalions. This is Lieutenant Ode Odens, a forward observer of the 440th Armored Field Artillery Battalion on his tank during 7th Armored Division operations near St. Vith on January 25, 1945. Each tank and armored-infantry battalion had at least one forward observer attached to them during operations.

Photo and caption featured in Osprey Combat 22 Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman European Theater of Operations 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga

[bryan-aiello]

St. Vith

St. Vith-- A story about the end of World War II

Maybe in the beginning, a mere seven months ago, they were a bunch of kids playing at war with loaded guns. Now though they are experienced in murder and seeing their friends die. Of hating with all their hearts. Of feeling fear and hunger and cold beyond imagination.

They stand in a dangerous place. A place obliterated by 240mm artillery rounds and bomb dropped from the sky. It was once a town…

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[todaysdocument]

Sergeant. [or Tec 4] Marvin E. Eans, Jr., demonstrates the new snow cape being used by First U.S. Army Infantrymen in snow-covered areas in Belgium. White rags are wrapped around his rifle for additional camouflage. St. Vith., 12/15/1944

(Just 1 day before German forces began their assault across Belgium, retaking towns such as St. Vith in the Battle of the Bulge.)

[gismtoeto]

Brig. Gen. Clark who was forced to evacuate St. Vith when Rundstedt’s troops overran the Ardennes sector, had the satisfaction of recapturing the town with the same men on January 23 after a day long house to house fight with Nazi rearguards. The town had been subjected to gunfire since the American occupation. Gen. Clarks’s men waiting for the German gunfire to cease before entering St. Vith in Belgium, January, 1945. (AP Photo)

[gismtoeto]

75th U.S. Division infantrymen, in heavy winter gear and armed with rifles and bazookas, are seen as they march through Belgian woods near St. Vith, 1945. (AP Photo)