U.S. Seventh Army. Dec. 16-20 1944, The 45th Div. 157th Inf. Seized the German Mountain Village of Nothweiller and the town of Bobenthal on the upper reaches of the Lauter River on the 16th, and reached Bundenthal and Nieder Schlettenbach a few miles farther North by the 18th. There its advance ended, on the 18th & 19th German counter attacks & intense Artillery and Mortar fire forced a general withdrawl back across the Lauter. It was during the withdrawl that my Uncle Pfc Eldred williams was KIA.
