The Story of the 10th Armored Division cont.
For days, 94th Inf. Div. doughs had been fighting what they termed "private war" with the German 11th Panzer Div. sheltered behind the Siegfreid Switch Line. On Feb. 19, these infantrymen unleashed a mighty heave, cracked the center of the line. Next morning, the 10th's tanks rumbled through the breach.
Tigers had a personal grudge to settle; they had taken a nose-bloodying in the triangle weeks before. This time it would be different.
It was different. Attacking with two combat commands abreast and one in reserve, the 10th steamrolled over bewildered opposition. CC A's TF Chamberlain cleaved the entire area neatly in half with an 11-mile thrust that put it in the division's objective &$151; high ground at the triangle's apex &$151; at 0800 the first day. Lt. Col. Jack J. Richardson's task force seized three towns on TF Chamberlain's right flank.