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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Maps
1 – Reflections
On Board the LST to Normandy
Crossing the Atlantic
The Bocage and the Hedgerows
Combat Command A: Action at Villiers-Fossard
2 – First Combat
Combat Command B Actions at Airel, Pont Hébert, and Vents Heights
Tragic Inferiority of the M4 Sherman Tank
Tree Snipers
Thoughts on the Reality of Combat
More Tank Losses
The German Counterattack: Tanks and Infantry in the Hedgerows
The Gas Attack
3 – The Breakthrough
Preparation: The Hedge Chopper
Planning Operation Cobra and the Saint-Lô Breakout
The Danger of Smoking in a Foxhole
The Bombardment
New Mission for Air Support
Operation Spark Plug
Lessons from Operation Cobra
4 – The Falaise Pocket
Breakthrough Becomes Breakout
The Battle of Mortain
Northeast Toward Falaise
General Rose Assumes Command
Closing the Falaise Pocket
Regrouping After Falaise
Tank Recovery in Combat
A New Commanding Officer
To Paris and Across the Seine
5 – From Paris to Soissons
Logistic Innovations
Ordnance Innovations
Advance from Paris to the Northeast
Soissons and Laon: Battleground of World War I
The Roadblock at Maubeuge
A Meeting Engagement at Mons
Attack on Charleroi
Liège: The Heaviest Fortified European City
Verviers to the Siegfried Line
6 – Assault on the Siegfried Line
The Siegfried Line
Attack Through the Dragons’ Teeth
The Division Regroups
The Battle of Aachen
Buildup to the Breakout Through the Siegfried Line
The Assault to the Roer River
The Failure of the November Offensive
7 – The Battle of the Bulge: Phase I, the German Attack
Status of the Division Prior to the German Attack
The German Attack
The American Defense
Stavelot-Trois Ponts-Stoumont-La Gleize
8 – The Battle of the Bulge: Phase II, the Counterattack
The Germans Regroup
3d Armored Division at Hotton-Manhay
German Air Attack
My Driver, White, Is Wounded
A Problem with Frostbite
The (VT) Proximity Fuse
The American Counterattack
Casualties
On Leave to Reims
9 – Back to Germany
Return to Aachen
Trading with the Enemy
The Western Front: February 1, 1945
Ordnance Problems
The First New M26 Tanks Arrive
The Roer River Line
Sleeping on a UXB
New Maps of Germany
10 – Battle of the Rhineland
Attack Across the Rhineland
The Super Pershing M26A1E2 Tank Arrives
The Assault on Cologne
11 – The Battle of Central Germany
The Western Front, March 23, 1945
The Remagen Bridgehead
Envelopment of the Ruhr Pocket
Major General Maurice Rose Is Killed in Action
Annihilation of a Task Force
Closing the Ruhr (Rose) Pocket
12 – Final Thrust Across Germany
The Tragedy at Nordhausen
The V2 Rocket Factory
The Final Assault
13 – The Aftermath
V-E Day
Darmstadt and the Army of Occupation
The First Industrial Survey of Postwar Germany
Reflections on the Aftermath
14 – The Survivors
The French Riviera
The Bomb
The Survivors
Epilogue: The Coin
Appendices
APPENDIX I – Panzers Versus American Armor
APPENDIX II – Adding More Protection
APPENDIX III – Field Deployment of an American Armored Division
Suggested Reading
Photos
Praise for DEATH TRAPS
Copyright
