Seven Days in January: With the 6th SS-Mountain Division in Operation NordwindWolf Zoepf has produced an extremely detailed account, part-memoir, part-combat narrative, covering the actions of 6th SS Mountain Division 'Nord' during the battles fought in Operation Nordwind, Alsace, 1945. Against the background of his division's three (plus) years of combat against the Soviets in northern Karelia, this book provides a detailed description of 6th SS Division's actions against elements of the US Seventh Army in the Low Vosges Mountains during the first seven days of 1945. Beyond a simple account of the course of the infiltration, raid, defence and exfiltration by his two-battalion task force, Herr Zoepf's book thoroughly recounts the action in adjacent sectors within the Low Vosges, on the German and the American sides of the battle as well. Particular attention is given to the battle for Wingen-sur-Moder, involving both seasoned and green American forces, and German units ranging from hastily-trained Volksgrenadiers to previously undefeated SS-Gebirgsjager. The course of the battle includes a masterfully-conducted infiltration through snow-covered mointains, the capture - and subsequent release, unharmed - of over 250 Americans, considerable close combat, joint |
Contents
The First Three Years | 5 |
NORDWIND Commences | 72 |
First Contact | 89 |
Copyright | |
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13th Company 179th Infantry Regiment 180th Infantry 1st Battalion 276th Infantry 3d Battalion 45th Infantry Division aid station American armored Army Group artillery assault assembly area Baerenthal battalion commander battle Carlau casualties Cheves Combat Group Wingen command post counterattack defensive Division NORD east elements enemy fighting Finnish flank forest front Generalmajor Goetzenbruck Group G Hauptsturmführer headquarters houses Hudelson Infantry Regiment 12 Infantry S-3 Journal Ingwiller January Kaesberg Kiestinki kilometers Kuusamo Lemberg Lieutenant Colonel Low Vosges machine guns Meisenthal Melch meters Moder mortar mountain night Obersturmführer officer Operation NORDWIND patrol Philippi platoon positions Puberg radio railroad reconnaissance reinforcements Reipertswiller reported rifle Rothbach Rothbach Valley route Rovaniemi Schreiber situation small arms fire soldiers Soviet SS-Division NORD SS-Mountain Infantry Regiment Standartenführer tanks Task Force Herren town troops underpass units Untersturmführer VI Corps Weinbourg Wildenguth Wimmenau Wingen-sur-Moder withdrawal wounded Zinswiller Zittersheim