Talk:Battle of Aachen

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DateProcessResult
January 16, 2009Good article nomineeListed
January 29, 2009WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 22, 2009.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single German pillbox?
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on October 21, 2009, October 21, 2010, October 21, 2014, October 21, 2018, and October 21, 2022.
Current status: Good article

Opening Comments[edit]

The date is off, most likely by a year - January 2 1944 is before the invasion of Normandy.

The first sentence of the second paragraph appears to be misplaced/doesn't flow with the rest of the paragraph. It's not clear what the "however" in the 2nd sentence is contradicting in the first sentence, and from it one assumes that the first sentence is supposed to be something like "The allies didn't think Aachen was important and thus didn't want to invade it." Epugachev 06:00, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the article could be included in the Aachen article and this story could be about the Medal of Honor winner. Tswold (talk) 14:14, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The battle is seperate from Aachen, and is a notable one in regards to the campaign and the unit history. The seperate article is just fine IMO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.73.120.68 (talk) 07:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The reference to Operation Market Garden is factualy untrue, the operation was not linked to opening up Antwerp - in fact Montgomery was critercised for not doing this and trying to break through to the Rhur. See Montgomery page for more details on this. Kiern Moran —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.7.195 (talk) 10:33, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gerhard Wilck a General or Colonel?[edit]

This article lists Wilck as a general; the Wikipedia article on Wilck lists him as a colonel. Perhaps he was a colonel at the time and promoted to general later? Catherinejarvis (talk) 00:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Many years later I respond that several sources show him as a colonel. If he was a general, he was promoted during the few weeks before the surrender to encourage him, like General Paulus, not to surrender and never got the commission, or at least no source I have seen bothers to mention that, or (almost impossibly) he was promoted while sitting out the last seven months of the war in a prison camp, or (most unlikely but perhaps not impossible) was in the West German Army in later years and was made a general. A fourth possibility, I suppose, is that there might have been a General Wilck who was a different person. Donner60 (talk) 11:05, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The German Wiki gives him as "Oberst" (colonel), if he was promoted to general this would be most likely mentioned. And there was no other "Wilck" in any notable position in the Wehrmacht. ciao --Pentaclebreaker (talk) 10:25, 24 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Background[edit]

"[...] fortifications protecting Aachen and the Ruhr were a formidable obstacle [...] " may it be that the river Rur is meant? As the aim was the Ruhr area and the fortifications of the Siegfried line were spanning along the River Rur? 

Ciao --Pentaclebreaker (talk) 13:46, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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