Chapter 11
Endnotes
1 FUSA Ltr of Instrs, 25 Sep, FUSA G-2 Jnl file, 1-3 Oct 44.
2 XIX Corps FO 27, 28 Sep, XIX Corps G-3 file, 28-29 Sep 44.
3 XIX Corps Special Rpt, Breaching the Siegfried Line, a narrative and convenient assimilation of relevant documents, filed with XIX Corps AAR, Oct 44; 30th Div G-2 Spot Estimate II, 30 Sep, and G-2 Per Rpt, 1 Oct, 30th Div G-3 files, 1-2 Oct 44.
4 Annex I to XIX Corps FO 27.
5 For an account of this auction see Martin Blumenson, Breakout and Pursuit, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II (Washington 1961). See also Bradley, A Soldier's Story, pp. 337-41, 346-49.
6 Msg, Hobbs to Corlett, 22 Sep, XIX Corps G-3 file, 22 Sept 44.
7 Note telephone conversations recorded in 30th Div G-3 file, 1 Oct 44. A detailed explanation of the Air Force view in this instance may be found in Roswell King, Comments on the Medium Bombardment Effort to Support the 30th Division, OCMH files. King was an air officer participating in this operation.
8 Note Msgs 5, 6, and 7, 30th Div G-3 Jnl, 1 Oct 44.
9 XIX Corps, Notes on Air Strike, 28 Sep, XIX Corps G3 file, 28 Sep 44; 30th Div, Notes or Air Strike, 30th Div G-3 file, 28-30 Sep 44; 30th Div, Revised Air Plan, Annex 2 to FO 42, 29 Sep XIX Corps G-3 file, 30 Sep 44.
10 Extensive combat interviews supplement official records of the 30th Division and attached units for this period. See also XIX Corps Special Rpt, Breaching the Siefried Line, and Special Rpt, Breaching the Siegfried Line, and Ltr, Hobbs to OCMH, 26 Dec 53.
11 30th Div G-2 Spot Estimate I I, 30 Sep 44, and G-2 Rpt, I Oct 44.
12 Daily Sitrep, LXXXI Corps, 22 Sep 44, LXXXI Corps KTB, Tagesmeldungen.
13 Details of enemy strength and organization may be found in Heichler, The Germans Opposite XIX Corps.
14 Heichler, in The Germans Opposite XIX Corps, gives strength figures and date of arrival of each of these units.
15 Rpt, Seventh Army to A Gp B, 30 Sep 44, A Gp B KTB, Operationsbefehle; MS # A-990 (Koechling); OB WEST KTB, 30 Sep 44.
16 MS # B-753 (Lange).
17 OB WEST KTB, 29 Sep 44; LXXXI Corps KTB, Tagesmeldungen, 30 Sep and 1 Oct 44; MS # B-792 (Macholz).
18 The 258th Field Artillery Battalion (SP 155's) claimed penetrations in all forty-three pillboxes engaged during a seven-day period. See Ltr, Lt Col Bradford A. Butler, Jr., comdg 258th FA Bn, to CG XIX Corps, 5 Oct 44, XIX Corps G-3 file, 5-6 Oct 44.
19 One unit reported: "Fired at haystack with machine gun. Shots bounced off."
20 "This gross error," the IX Bombardment Division determined later, "was due to poor navigation, poor headwork, and misidentification of target." History, IX Bombardment Division (M) Sep-Oct 44, and attached copy of Teletype, Gen Anderson (CG IX Bomb Div) to Gp and Wing Comdrs; see also Craven and Cate, eds., Europe: ARGUMENT to V-E Day, p. 615.
21 The air strike was called Operation Cisco. The story of the strike and the following attack is based upon observations in combat interviews; Hewitt, Workhorse of the Western Front, p. 112; Msg, 30th Div G-3 to XIX Corps CG, 2 Oct, in 30th Div G-3 file, 2 Oct 44; XIX Corps AAR, Oct 44; 30th Div G-3 Jnl, 2 Oct 44; History, IX Bombardment Division (M); Unit History, IX Fighter Comd and IX TAC, Oct 44; and Craven and Cate, eds., Europe: ARGUMENT to V-E Day, p. 615.
22 Ltrs, Corlett to OCMH, 2 Sep 53 and 20 May 56.
23 MS # B-792 (Macholz).
24 183d VG Div AAR; Evng and Daily Sitreps, 183d VG Div to LXXXI Corps, 2 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Tagesmeldungen; Tel Convs, LXXXI Corps to 183d VG Div, 1430, 1800, and 2120, 2 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf.
25 183d VG Div AAR; Mng Sitrep, LXXXI Corps to Seventh Army, 0555, 3 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Tagesmeldungen.
26 Ibid. See also American accounts in records of the 117th Infantry.
27 Tel Conv, LXXXVI Corps to LXXXI Corps, 1920, 3 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf.
28 See 29th Div AAR, Oct 44, and Joseph H. Ewing, 29 Let's Go! A History of the 29th Infantry Division in World War II (Washington: Infantry Journal Press, 1948). This is among the better unit histories.
29 XIX Corps Ltr of Instrs 40, 3 Oct, XIX Corps Ltr of Instrs file, Oct 44.
30 For this story, see Blumenson, Breakout and Pursuit, Ch. VI.
31 Ltr, Gen Harmon to OCMH, 5 Jan 54.
32 AAR, 183d VG Div; Tel Conv, LXXXI Corps to 183d VG Div, 1900, 3 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf.
33 Ibid.
34 Official records of the 2d Armored Division for this period are supplemented by one combat interview to be found in 30th Division Combat Interview files.
35 LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf, 4 Oct 44.
36 Tel Convs, LXXXI Corps to 246th Div, 1225, 4 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps to 12th Div, 1230, 4 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps to 183d Div, 1250 and 1535, 4 Oct 44, and LXXXI Corps to 49th Div, 1530, 4 Oct 44, all in LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf; Order, LXXXI Corps to I83d and 49th Divs, 1345, 4 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps KTB, Befehle an Div; AAR, 183d VG Div.
37 Order, Brandenberger to LXXXI Corps, 2035, 4 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps KTB, Befehle: Heeresgruppe, Armee, usw.
38 AAR 183d VG Div; Tel Convs, Seventh Army to LXXXI Corps, 2200, 2 Oct, and LXXXI Corps Arty O to aide, 2230, 4 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf; Order, LXXXI Corps to 183d and 49th Divs, 2040, 4 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Befehle an Div.
39 AAR, 183d VG Div; Tel Convs, LXXXI Corps to 183d Div, 0145, 0600, 0640, and 1200, 5 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf.
40 It presumably was a local counterattack of a type often launched for limited objectives but not always included in records of higher headquarters. German sources make no mention of this action.
41 Order, Brandenberger to LXXXI Corps, 2035, 4 Oct 44.
42 XIX Corps Special Rpt, Breaching the Siegfried Line, and comments on draft of this study by Col James R. Winn, FA, found in XIX Corps AAR, Oct 44.
43 See Tel Convs, Air Ln O, Seventh Army, to LXXXI Corps, 1315, and LXXXI Corps to 49th Div, 2140, 5 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampf verlauf .
44 AAR, 183d VG Div; Table of Tank and Antitank Gun Situation as of 2100, 5 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps KTB, Tagesmeldungen; Table of independent units attached to LXXXI Corps divs as of 5 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Befehle an Div.
45 Tel Conv, Seventh Army to LXXXI Corps, 1340, 6 Oct 44, in LXXXI Corps KTB, Kampfverlauf .
46 Corlett to OCMH, 20 May 56.
47 XIX Corps Ltr of Instrs 4, 1400, 6 Oct, XIX Corps Ltr of Instrs file, Oct. 44.
48 AAR on opns of 7 Oct 44, 49th Inf Div, 10 Oct 44, LXXXI Corps KTB, Meldungen der Div.
49 30th Div Tel Jnl, 7 Oct, 30th Div G-3 file, 7-8 Oct 44.
50 See 30th Div G-i Jnl Supplements, Oct 44, Daily Cumulative Casualty Estimates, and CCB, 2d Armd Div, S-3 Per Rpt, 1-10 Oct 44, CCB AAR, Oct 44. See also 2d Armd Div AAR, Oct 44. Figures for CCA, 2d Armored Division, are available only for the entire month of October; the author has made a conservative estimate of CCA losses based on the total for the entire month and on CCB losses during a comparable period in the bridgehead battle. The 30th Division estimate includes the 120th Infantry but not attached units.
51 Compare losses of the entire 7th Armored Division in the unsuccessful Peel Marshes offensive. See Ch. X above.
52 This estimate is based on Heichler, The Germans Opposite XIX Corps.
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