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Maps Courtesy of William Cavanagh
"Dauntless" (A History of the 99th Infantry Division) by William Cavanagh,
2ID European Military Historian and 2ID Tour Guide. Email: krinkelt@aol.com
(Click inside each map for a larger view of the map.)

"Map number 3: The 2nd Div CP was in a farmhouse on the northern edge of Wortzfeld. Divarty CP was in the Wirtzfeld Scoolhouse. 38th Inf CP was in the Faymonville home in Rocherath.Col. McKinley's CP was in a dugout 300 yards west of Lausdell just to the left of the small road to Baracken from Lausdell. 3/23 defended the west bank of the Jansbach. It took the 12th SS and a Regiment of 277th VG Div 36 hours to get from the International Highway (99th Front) to Ruppenvenn at the western edge of the forest." (William Cavanagh)

"The villages and the area east of them as far as the west bank of the Jansbach were defended by (in this order) 3/23, 1/9 + Company K of the 9th Infantry, 1/38, 2/38, 3/38, Company C, 741st Tank Battalion, Antitank Company 38th Infantry and Company C, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Men of the 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion and the EVER PRESENT Aid Men of 2nd Inf Div also served in the villages. A few stragglers from the 99th were also there. By the time the attacking battalion of 25th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment got through the 3rd Battalion 393rd then pushed through 3/23 all its company commanders were either seriously wounded or dead." (William Cavanagh)

This map courtesy Charlie Curley, Company E, 38th Infantry Regiment