Happy New Year! I hope all are well into the recovery phase of their weekend journeys. It’s the first Monday of 2012, and time for the 90th Infantry Division Pic of the Week–a German pillbox from Habscheid, Germany.
And so it ends. Over the last two weeks, we’ve been posting portions (Part 1), (Part 2) and (Part 3), of a rather long, but ultra-interesting period article on the Battle of Dillingen, Germany. It is titled, “Yank ‘Pillbox Busters’ Blast Big Holes in Siegfried Line,” and was written by Pierre Huss, traveling with the [...]
Back again, for another installment of a fantastic period piece from World War II, and the Battle of Dillingen, Germany. The original article, titled, “Yank ‘Pillbox Busters’ Blast Big Holes in Siegfried Line,” was authored by Pierre J. Huss, traveling with the 90th Infantry Division. After presenting portions of the rather long article last week, [...]
Late last week, we posted the first part of a period article regarding the Battle of Dillingen, Germany. Today we will resume where we left off. The original work was titled, “Yank ‘Pillbox Busters’ Blast Big Holes in Siegfried Line,” written by Pierre J. Huss. “…I contacted the 90th Division here and pillbox buster Sgt. [...]
I recently came across a fantastic World War II period article titled, “Yank ‘Pillbox Busters’ Blast Big Holes in Siegfried Line.” It was written by Pierre J. Huss, dated December 14, 1944, shortly after the Battle of Dillingen, Germany. Huss was a reporter traveling with the Third Army. The article is rather lengthy, so I [...]