Covers the operations of the VII Corps in September, 1944, including the Battle of the Stolberg Corridor, the drive on the second band, building a wall about Aachen and the Battle of the Lammersdorf Corridor.
The defense of Aachen and the Stolberg Corridor, the LXXXI Corps (situation in mid-September 1944), their counterattack and stalemate, and the defense of the Lammersdorf Corridor and the West Wall are detailed.
This study investigates the role played by VII Corps' World War II Cavalry Group, the 4th Cavalry Group, in the European Theater of Operations. The thesis seeks to determine if the group executed its doctrinal mission during the war. Prior to and...