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Battle of Alsace
Part of the Second World War
Date
November 20, 1944 - March 19, 1945
Location
Alsace
Belligerents
France
United States
Nazi Germany
Casualties and losses
France: ~3,000/4,000 killed, several thousands injured.
United States: Thousands killed and injured.
Germany: approximately 23,000 killed or injured; 23,000 prisoners.[1]
In January 1945, a M10 tank destroyer opens fire in the snow near Sparsbach.American tanks heading towards Drusenheim in January 1945.
The Battle of Alsace was a military campaign between the Allies, mainly French, and the Germans in Alsace, eastern France, from 20 November 1944 to 19 March 1945. It led to the liberation of Alsace by the Allies.[2]
^Dufour, Pierre (2014). La campagne d'Alsace: automne 1944-hiver 1945. Paris: Grancher. ISBN 978-2-7339-1278-2.
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again at the Battleof Belvoir Castle in 1182 and the Siege of Kerak in 1183. In 1177, King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, and Philip ofAlsace who had recently...
Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsass) was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from November 1944 to February 1945...
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largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France. Located at the border with Germany in the historic region ofAlsace, it is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin...
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was seriously wounded while leading a Zouave bayonet charge during the Battleof St. Quentin on 30 August 1914, and was left for dead on the field. He...
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Est region of north-eastern France. The third-largest commune in Alsace (after Strasbourg and Mulhouse), it is the seat of the prefecture of the Haut-Rhin...
1944: The Battleof the Bulge. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-1431098-6-0. Cirillo, Roger. The Ardennes-Alsace. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II...
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