The Colmar Pocket (French: 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, against the U.S. 6th Army Group (6th AG) during World War II. It was formed when 6th AG liberated southern and northern Alsace and adjacent eastern Lorraine, but could not clear central Alsace. During Operation Nordwind in December 1944, the 19th Army attacked north out of the Pocket in support of other German forces attacking south from the Saar into northern Alsace. In late January and early February 1945, the French First Army (reinforced by the U.S. XXI Corps) cleared the Pocket of German forces.
The ColmarPocket (French: Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsass) was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from...
Colmar (French: Colmar, pronounced [kɔlmaʁ]; Alsatian: Colmer [ˈkolməʁ]; German: Kolmar) is a city and commune in the Haut-Rhin department and Grand Est...
battle fought by the United States in World War II. The ColmarPocket (French: Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsaß) was the area held in central...
was awarded the Medal of Honor for his January 1945 actions at the ColmarPocket in France, he was considered to be America's most decorated World War...
Operation Nordwind was launched by German ground forces on 31 December 1944 against U.S. and French ground forces in the Rhineland-Palatinate and the Alsace...
single-handedly holding off a company of German soldiers for an hour at the ColmarPocket in France in January 1945, before leading a successful counterattack...
guns in the pocket, and that little of the equipment able to be extricated was taken across the Seine. Battle of the Mons PocketColmarPocket Liberation...
In World War II, the Atlantic pockets were locations along the coasts of the Netherlands, Belgium and France chosen as strongholds by the occupying German...
Operation Nordwind and subsequent pitched engagements closing off the ColmarPocket. The 63rd Infantry Division was the first Seventh Army unit to cross...
restored the front line to the area of the German border and collapsed the ColmarPocket. The pincer movement of the Canadian First Army, advancing from the...
the northwest towards Neuf-Brisach. The French entered Colmar on 2 February 1945; the ColmarPocket was cleared on February 9. The last part of Alsace, from...
Group G temporarily lost responsibility for the German troops in the ColmarPocket and on the Rhine River south of the Bienwald to the short-lived Army...
Offendorf north of Strasbourg. South of Strasbourg, German troops in the ColmarPocket attacked north toward Strasbourg on 7 January, inflicting painful losses...
US XXI Corps was assigned to his First Army during the battle of the ColmarPocket. He was also the French representative at the signing of the German...
1945 it repelled a fierce but brief enemy counter-offensive in the ColmarPocket south of Strasbourg during the German Operation Nordwind, then completed...
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