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f from left, Alex Yarkowsky, Willi tlge.thin and overpowered, Germans were held up for four days by a handful of gritty American soldiers defending from an isolated farm. i The worst attrocity of the war in Germany, the Malmady Massacre, occurred Dec. 17 in Malmady. The 6th Panzer Army’s 1st SS Division, commanded by Lt. Col. Joachim Pelper, broke through cavalry linking the Americans’ 99th and 106th divisions. The day before attacking gasoline stockpiles and shooting 20 unarmed American soldiers, Peiper’s 2?000-man force gunned down an American artillery convoy at a crossroads near the town. More than 100 Americans were assembled in a field and sprayed with machine gun fire. Only a few managed to sneak away.Peiper’s Panzers next set their sights on the 2nd and 99th divisions.In mid-November, the 99th Division and three of its regiments had dug in along a 22-mile front between Hofen and Lushein, Belgium. Prior to the attack, on Dec. 13, several soldiers of the 99th assembled at Elsen-bom Ridge with units of the 2nd Division to secure the Urfttalspere Dam on the Rhine River, and a few surrounding towns in advance of anAmArinnn nfroncivo
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Indiana Gazette
Indiana, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jan 26, 1985
Page 15
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