11-181 Garand Picture of the Day

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2 November, 1944. G.I.'s of Company E, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division move through the forest near the Raffelsbrand road junction.(rudeerude)

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[Mark in Rochester]

There are a few monuments, memorials and German military cemeteries in the area. The German military cemetery "Der Soldatenfriedhof Vossenack" holds the grave of Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model as well as a memorial to the 116th Panzer Division. "Der Soldatenfriedhof Hürtgen" is also nearby and has a memorial honoring German Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld,
who was killed while trying to save the life of a wounded American G.I. The memorial was placed by the U.S. 22nd Infantry Regiment. There is also a memorial near the Raffelsbrand road junction placed on the location where 3 remains (2 Americans, 1 German) were recovered in 1976.

[the 28th Division's 110th Infantry Regiment reported 2,089 casualties in sixteen days of fighting during the battle for the Hürtgen Forest and that figure may have been too low. Its 3rd Battalion entered the forest with 871 men and it received another 200 replacements during the fighting. A total of 75 men -- just 7% -- were still capable of fighting at the end. Only one officer survived in each of Companies I, K and L. Company M fared the best with four of its officers remaining. The battalion also lost its commanding officer, executive officer, S-2 intelligence officer, S-3 operations officer, executive surgeon, and its medical assistance officer.