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Operation Queen was a joint venture of the US Ninth and First Armies. This webpage describes Operation Queen in the First Army sector, at the eastern end of the Hürtgen Forest.
Operation Queen was a joint venture of the US Ninth and First Armies. This webpage describes Operation Queen in the First Army sector, at the eastern end of the Hürtgen Forest.
Operation Queen, which in the First Army sector was also the third phase of the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest, began on 16 November and ended around 13 December. It ended with almost all of the Hürtgen Forest in First Army hands.
Originally Operation Queen's southern sector, in the Hürtgen Forest, was initially assigned to VII Corps. On 19 November, V Corps units were brought in. Some smaller units that fought are not listed above.
Sources for Big Pigeon's The ETO > War of Attrition > Rhineland 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen webpage:
Major Sources:
Pottawattamie Area WW II Dead - The ETO > War of Attrition > Rhineland 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen:
† Ellison, Melvin Isaac, SN 37-446-316, US Army, Harrison Co.
Major Sources:
- The Siegfried Line Campaign, by Charles B. MacDonald, 1961, ~670 pp. [CMH #7-7] - the 1944 ETO Rhineland Campaign & Netherlands operations. See Chapters XVIII, XIX, & XX.
- http://home.scarlet.be/~sh446368/home.html - The Battle for the Hürtgen Forest.
- Operation Queen - The Hürtgen Forest, 16 November - 9 December 1944, scalable map, https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Siegfried/maps/USA-E-Siegfried-VII.jpg.
- After Action Report, 12th Inf. Regt., 1st Inf. Div., 1 November - 8 December 1944, http://home.scarlet.be/~sh446368/aar-12th-inf-1.html.
Pottawattamie Area WW II Dead - The ETO > War of Attrition > Rhineland 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen:
- Taken from the bigpigeon.us WWII Roster module.
† Ellison, Melvin Isaac, SN 37-446-316, US Army, Harrison Co.
- Co. I, 3rd Bn., 12th Inf. Regt., 4th Inf. Div., VII Corps, First Army; WIA probably near Germeter, NW of Schmidt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; DOW 19 Nov 1944; Operation Queen - The ETO > War of Attrition > Rhineland 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen.
- Co. H, 2nd Bn., 331 Inf. Regt., 83rd Inf. Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 11 Dec 1944, near Gey, SW of Düren, Hürtgen Forest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Operation Queen - The ETO > War of Attrition > Rhineland 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen.
- Co. C, 1st Bn., 16th Inf. Regt., 1st Inf. Div., VII Corps, First Army (1st Bn. attached to 18th Inf. 27th & 28th); KIA 27 Nov 1944 near Langerwehe, NW of Düren, Hürtgen Forest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Operation Queen - The ETO > War of Attrition > Rhineland 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen.
- Co. H, 2nd Bn.,18th Inf. Regt., 1st Inf. Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 1 Dec 1944, NE of Langerwehe, NW of Düren, Hürtgen Forest, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Operation Queen - The ETO > War of Attrition > Rhineland 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen.