Brutal Battles in the Colmar Pocket 1944
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The Colmar Pocket would see brutal hand to hand combat between the US Army and the German Defenders of the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS
The village of Sigolsheim in the Colmar Pocket would be viciously contested but would fall to the Americans of the 3rd Infantry Division in late December 1944. This is their story filmed entirely on location.
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