Urban warfare and violence

🦅 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐏𝐢𝐱 🦅 on Instagram: "Urban fighting in the streets of Aachen, October 1944. Today, in 1944, U.S. troops captured the city of Aachen after 19 days of heavy urban fighting. It was the first major city on German soil to be captured by the Allies. ⠀ By 1944 September, the Anglo-American armies had reached Germany's western border and the Siegfried Line. General Courtney Hodges's First U.S. Army was ordered to break through the front near Aachen. He had initially hoped to bypass an