![]() One of the blocking positions was the intersection near the village of Lullange where the hard-surfaced road from Clerf entered that leading to Bastogne. ![]() Both positions were on the line which General Middleton would order held "at all costs." Earlier, Middleton had directed the commander of the 106th Division to watch the northern entrance to this road, but the immediate threat on the night of the 17th was that the mobile spearheads of the German attack would gain access to this road much closer to Bastogne. Vith and the German border southwestward to Bastogne. ![]() The two roadblock positions selected by the corps commander lay on Highway N 12, which extended diagonally from St. The 9th Armored Division commander already had sent CCR south to Oberwampach, behind the 28th Division center, when General Middleton ordered the combat command to set up two strong roadblocks on the main paved road to Bastogne "without delay." This order came at 2140, ten minutes after word that the enemy had crossed the Clerf reached the VIII Corps command post. Delayed reports from the 28th Division indicated that an enemy breakthrough was imminent. When the second day of the battle came to a close, it had become apparent that the German columns advancing in the central sector were aiming at the road system leading to Bastogne. The platoon of self-propelled tank destroyers from CCR which, as described What anti-mechanized means he could find for commitment this included The center of the corps front, caused General Middleton to start gathering ![]() By the afternoon of 17ĭecember German armored gains at the expense of the 28th Division, forming It consisted of the 52d Armored Infantryīattalion, 2d Tank Battalion, 73d Armored Field Artillery Battalion,Īnd the conventional task force attachments. Chapter 13-THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGEĬCR, 9th Armored Division, and the Road to BastogneĬCR, 9th Armored Division, the armored reserve of the VIII Corps, hadīeen stationed at Trois Vierges on 13 December in position to support ![]()
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