Siegfried Line

"Well," he kept saying, "they're trying to make another Siegfried line up there.

In 1944, a second production run was conducted to reward the workers and military personnel strengthening the Siegfried line.

The Germans now had the advantage of their old fortification system, the Siegfried line.

Left behind with the washing on the Siegfried Line.'

The French army didn't reach the Siegfried line.

This article deals with this second Siegfried line.

The Siegfried Line was much more valuable as a propaganda tool than as a military defence.

When the linkup took place the following day, the companies faced east and attacked again, this time to breach the Siegfried Line.

When he was 15 the German government conscripted boys of that age to dig trenches on the Siegfried line.

"You know about the Siegfried line?

The American forces reached the 'Siegfried Line' or 'Westwall' in late September.

Hard still fighting lay ahead, but the Siegfried Line was Germany's last attempt to defend its prewar boundaries along the western front.

They were noted for being the first Allied unit to set foot onto Belgian soil and the first to cross the Siegfried line.

The Siegfried Line originally ended in the north near Brüggen in the Viersen district.

'We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line'

The Organisation Todt quartered itself in the Eifel and the second Siegfried Line sprang up.

General Maurice Gamelin ordered his troops to stop "not closer than 1 kilometre" from the German positions along the Siegfried Line.

In the first week of February 1945, the corps again occupied the Schnee Eifel and pushed through the Siegfried Line.

The Maginot line, the Siegfried line, the Ardennes Forest, Battle of the Bulge.

On the 13th, the division began to push against the Siegfried Line fortifications around Wallendorf, aiming to push through to Bitburg.

It then advanced through the Siegfried line to the Rhine River, crossing the Inde river into Cologne.

Finally, on 1 February 1945, the order came to conduct the assault on the Siegfried Line through the Belgian Fort Gerolstein.

PART FIVE They had sung, "We'll hang out the washing on the Siegfried Line', but they hadn't been able to do it.

I went in with A Troop 121st Squadron when it and B Troop 121st Squadron attacked the first town south of the Siegfried Line.

Operation Queen was an American operation during World War II at the Western Front at the German Siegfried Line.