1 (See Map V.)Īs soon as it reached the quiet VIII Corps area, the 4th Infantry Division began to send groups of its veterans on leave-to Paris, to Arlon in Belgium, even a fortunate few to the United States. Chance) lay in the path of the projected German counteroffensive. Of the three regiments only the 12th Infantry (Col.
The 12th Infantry was on the left (next to the 9th Armored Division) and fronting on the Sauer the 8th Infantry was in the center, deployed on both the Sauer and Moselle the 22d Infantry reached to the right along the Moselle until it touched the First and Third Army boundary just beyond the Luxembourg border. The division completed its concentration within the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on the 13th, its three regiments deployed as they would be when the German attack came. Across these rivers lay a heterogeneous collection of German units whose lack of activity in past weeks promised the rest the 4th Division needed so badly. The 35-mile front assigned to the 4th Division conformed to the west bank of the Sauer and Moselle Rivers. It moved south to Luxembourg, "the quiet paradise for weary troops," as one report names it, taking over the 83d Infantry Division positions on the right flank of the VIII Corps (and First Army) while the 83d occupied the old 4th Division sector in the north. Having lost over 5,000 battle casualties and 2,500 nonbattle casualties from trench foot and exposure, the division now had to be rebuilt to something approaching its former combat effectiveness. Barton) left the VII Corps after a month of bloody operations in the Hürtgen Forest. In the first week of December the 4th Infantry Division (Maj. Chapter 10-THE ARDENNES: THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
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