‘Street Fighting: Schiller Strasse Style’

7th December 1944: The 377th Infantry Regiment's 'G' Company break down walls between houses to attack the Germans

A contemporary artist's impression of the First Battalion of the 377th fighting in Saarlauten.

The Allied front line facing Germany was over 400 miles long. In some places it was very quiet with relatively thin concentrations of troops spread out across a wide front where no threat was deemed imminent - such as in the Ardennes¹. Elsewhere there was intens…