The story
The war of movement was continuing, however, and the following day this First Battalion of the 232nd was moved northward by the 79th Division to relieve elements of the 274th Infantry in the towns of Soufflenheim, Stattmatten and Drusenheim, small dots on the map along the Rhine River where the men of the Rainbow were to do some of their most fierce fighting. The regimental front was now 33 miles long.
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