infantry as it assaulted the town of Ormont. After the TD’s had fired 26 rounds of 90mm and 2000
rounds of 50 caliber, the tanks firing about the same amount, the town was captured by the infantry.
During the next couple of days, the companies hammered their way through more pillboxes of
the strongly fortified line. With the key points of Ormont, Neuendorf and Nolzheim taken, the Siegfried
Line was breached and resistance slackened.
Figure 5-1
One of the Many Siegfried Pill Boxes our T.D.’s Neutralized
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