![]() ![]() There were also numerous concrete bunkers in the area, mostly belonging to the deep defenses of the Siegfried Line, which were also centers of resistance. The German defenders had prepared the area with improvised blockhouses, minefields, barbed wire, and booby-traps, hidden by the mud and snow. Conditions on the ground became a muddy morass, further impeding vehicular traffic, especially heavy vehicles such as tanks. In the autumn and early winter of 1944, the weather was cold, wet and cloudy, and often prevented air support. The dense conifer forest is broken by few roads, tracks and firebreaks vehicular movement is restricted. ![]() First Army at least 33,000 killed and wounded, including both combat and non-combat losses, with upper estimate at 55,000 German casualties were 28,000. It was the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and is the longest single battle the U.S. A series of fierce battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944 between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, (54 sq mi) area about (3.1 mi) east of the Belgian-German border. ![]()
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