242 Infantry Regiment (USA) Coy F & G charge NE of Gambsheim
Task Force B, now under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William B. Zeller, executive officer of the 232nd Infantry, continued the attack during the night and at 0230 on January 6 again crossed the canal. Moving forward against heavy enemy fire, the men of Companies F and G of the 242nd Infantry charged a woods northeast of Gambsheim, while Companies E of the 222nd and 232nd Infantry Regiments, the latter in reserve, attacked south of the woods through successive bands of interlacing machine gun fire. The sky was an inferno of blazing red tracers and bursting, hot shells, but the Rainbow men refused to be stopped. By dawn, E Company, 222nd Infantry, had sustained heavy casualties but had succeeded in reaching the railroad tracks bordering the town, where it was momentarily stopped by determined enemy automatic weapons. Realizing that full daybreak would
make them easy targets for enemy artillery, the doughboys leaped to their feet yelling, "Hubba! Hubba!" and fought their way into Gambsheim, where they were quickly joined by Company E of the 232nd Infantry.