On this day in 1944, American troops capture Aachen after 39 days of street fighting. The ancient Frankish capital, which has been called the "cradle of Europe," is the first city inside the borders of Germany to fall to the Allies.
@DGWatSea If Oise and Meuse were already decommissioned by then, where did the two of them end up once war started? And what became of Pasteur afterward?
@VoicesofWW2 140 men slipping through Dutch woods a month after Arnhem is remarkable — how were they still evading capture with German patrols on that scale?