Rittershoffen is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The commune was the scene of fierce fighting during Operation...
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and threaten Strasbourg and the Saverne Gap by attacks at Hatten and Rittershoffen, two small villages located side by side on the Alsatian Plain. However...
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7 Luck approached the line south of Wissembourg at the villages of Rittershoffen and Hatten. Heavy American fire came from the 79th Infantry Division...
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Reutenbourg Rexingen Rhinau Richtolsheim Riedseltz Rimsdorf Ringendorf Rittershoffen Rœschwoog Rohr Rohrwiller Romanswiller Roppenheim Rosenwiller Rosheim...
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line to Strasbourg. Two weeks of heavy fighting in the villages of Rittershoffen and Hatten followed. Luck recalled to Stephen Ambrose fifty years later...
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Reutenbourg Rexingen Rhinau Richtolsheim Riedseltz Rimsdorf Ringendorf Rittershoffen Rœschwoog Rohr Rohrwiller Romanswiller Roppenheim Rosenwiller Rosheim...
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fortification it was." Here the Line ran east-west, around the villages of Rittershoffen and Hatten, south of Wissembourg. After the war, the French re-manned...
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farmer and innkeeper in Gray's Ferry. His mother's ancestors came from Rittershoffen in Alsace, France, and from Canton of Bern in Switzerland. At the age...
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Préchac-sur-Adour Piemont Poitiers Quiéry-la-Motte Rennes Riquewihr Rittershoffen Rivesaltes Rouen Saint-Fons Saint-Jean-d'Angély Saint-Priest, Isère...
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in furious fighting. The 79th beat off German attacks at Hatten and Rittershoffen in an 11-day battle before withdrawing to new defensive positions south...
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