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7th Armored in St. Vith

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IPTC Object Name 7th Armored in St. Vith
IPTC Created Date 19450124
IPTC Author Unknown
IPTC City St. Vith
IPTC Province State Wallonia
IPTC Country Name Belgium
IPTC Credit United States Army
IPTC Caption M4 Sherman medium tanks of the 40th Tank Battalion, Combat Command R, 7th Armored Division, take up defensive positions in a field near St. Vith after retaking the village from the Germans. The 7th Armored, in a less famous but equally heroic stand than Bastogne, was cut off from reinforcements (except for scratch units of the 106th Infantry Division, 9th Armored Division and 28th Infantry Division) in St. Vith on December 17, 1944. Faced with intermittent radio contact and a lack of supplies and reinforcements, the 7th Armored denied St. Vith from the Germans for five vital days. After regrouping and re-equipping in early January 1945, Combat Command B of the 7th Armored retook St. Vith on January 23.