"Starting early from the border village of Schoenberg [on Sept. 15, 1944], the 8th Infantry ran into blown bridges and roadblocks almost from the beginning. A heavy mist also slowed the column and for the second straight day denied tactical air support. At the border near the village of Losheim the column hit definite resistance. Sideslipping to the south along a secondary
highway, the regiment encountered a relatively stout outpost position near the village of Roth. By late afternoon the leading battalion had pushed the outpost back to the West Wall. But the 8th Infantry commander, Colonel Rodwell, saw no hope of readying a coordinated attack against the fortifications before the next morning."
From the THE SIEGFRIED LINE. CAMPAIGN by Charles B. MacDonald
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