The campaign on the German frontier in late 1944 was one of the most frustrating and costly efforts by the US Army in the ETO. The Allies first encountered the Siegfried Line (Westwall) fortifications in September 1944, having pursued the retreating Wehrmacht through Belgium and the Netherlands. The border area around Aachen had been fortified with a double line of bunkers, and both the terrain and the weather made things difficult for the Allies. This book focuses on the involvement of the US First and Ninth armies in the six-month fighting, including the hellish fighting for the Hurtgen fore.

Includes maps of: Strategic Situation, 25 AUG-11 SEP 1944; Westwall Defenses in the Aachen Sector; Typical Stretch of the Westwall near Aachen; First Battle of Aachen - The Stolberg Corridor, 12-29 SEP 1944; Second Battle of Aachen, 7-21 OCT 1944; Hurtgenwald, 2-7 NOV 1944; Operation Queen, 16 NOV-9 DEC 1944 (2); Final Push - VII Corps Reaches the Roer, 10-16 DEC 1944.

Strategic Situation --Opposing Commanders -- German commanders -- US commanders -- Opposing Armies -- Wehrmacht -- US Army -- Opposing Plans -- US plans -- German plans -- Campaign -- First battle of Aachen -- North of Aachen -- Encircling Aachen -- Second battle of Aachen -- Prelude to Operation Queen: Hurtgen -- Operation Queen -- Operation Clipper: VIII Corps -- Operation Queen: the December clean up -- Prelude to the Ardennes -- Campaign in Retrospect -- Battlefields today.