11-16-2007, 05:08 PM
9th Infantry and 5th Armored Divisions did not participate in the Battle of the Bulge.
5th Armored were one of the liberators of Luxembourg.
The Division entered the Hurtgen Forest area in late November and pushed the enemy back to the banks of the Roer River in very heavy fighting. On 22 December it was withdrawn to Verviers and placed in 12th Army Group reserve.
From mid-December through January 1945, the 9th Infantry Division held defensive positions from Kalterherberg to Elsenborn.
Erwin