Westwall - Remains Bunker Roth bei Prüm

On February 27, 1945, the 87th US Infantry Division was prepared with the preparation to break the Westwall at Ormont. They were stationed on a 7 km front front between Scheid and Kobscheid.
The Westwall here had 2 lines of defense in which the first consisted of dragon teeth barriers with barbed wire at the foot of the hills and in the forests on the hills there were bunkers who could give interlinked fire. In addition, there were also mine fields and at the intersections and the roads there were roadblocks.
After the 346th Infantry Regiment got stuck on a road block on the 27th of February, where nowadays the L20 and B265 cross each other, the 347th Infantry Regiment (3 battalion, Compagnie K and L) was instructed to clean up the Roadblock on 28 February.
On the left side of the road was a mine field that was covered by a bunker and this bunker was overpowered. At the intersection, the attack axle turned to the left, where the 2 companies each continued on one side of the road through the forests, eliminating bunkers but also leaving certain bunkers for the subsequent troops.
Just before they came out of the forest, the soldiers against a roadblock that was cleared by Compagnie K, but the tanks and the supporting units had to wait that the roadblock was blown up by the genius. When the forest ends, there were 2 bunkers on the two side of the road.
For the breaking of the Westwall and the attack on Ormont, Compagnie K, 347th Infantry Regiment received a presidential unit citation from the.
At this location, 1 of the bunkers of the Westwall that was attacked by Compagnie K of the 374th Infantry Regiment.

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Source

• Text: Gio Theunissen
• Photos: Gio Theunissen