The story
Now the Division was pinched off just past Dahn by the units on its right and left and on the morning of the 23rd the regiments reached the limits of the Rainbow's sector and began the job of rounding up and digging out all the Germans which had been by-passed in the whirlwind advance.
Everywhere there was enemy surrendering. They threw down their arms and walked into town and gave themselves up. They came pouring out of the hills. In the 24 hours after its break through the Siegfried the Division took more than 2,000 prisoners and in that same length of time advanced 15 miles through the Hardt Mountains.
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