Two Shermans Cornered Five Tigers in Rocherath... Trapped in a Narrow Street
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THE FLIP - Rocherath-Krinkelt<br><br>Battle: Rocherath-Krinkelt, the twin villages, seventeen to nineteen December nineteen forty-four. (National WWII Museum)<br>US units: Second Infantry Division, Ninety-ninth Infantry Division, 741st Tank Battalion, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion. (The Tank Museum)<br>German force: Twelfth SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and 277th Volksgrenadier; forty-one Panthers and thirty-seven Panzer IV tanks on sixteen December, no Tigers. (Weapons and Warfare)<br>Tiger correction: the reported Tigers were Panthers; the Tiger battalion (501st SS) was with Kampfgruppe Peiper on another road. (cmohs.org)<br>Medal of Honor: Private First Class William Soderman, Company K Ninth Infantry, disabled three tanks with a bazooka at Rocherath. (Congressional Medal of Honor Society)<br>German losses: northern sector: over four thousand dead and about sixty tanks and heavy guns lost; about seventeen tank wrecks in front of Rocherath. (military-history.fandom)<br>Verdict: the Sixth Panzer Army never broke the northern shoulder and was forced to shift its main effort south. (historyofwar.org)<br>Aftermath: the villages fell to the Germans twenty December, retaken thirty January nineteen forty-five. (Liberation Route Europe)
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