Courtney Hicks Hodges was a senior officer in the United States Army who commanded the First U.S. Army in the Western European Campaign of World War II. Hodges was a "mustang" officer, rising from pri
Hodges as a lieutenant general, 1944
Hodges as a cadet at West Point
The Allied army commanders hold a conference in a hayfield in northwest France. Pictured are Lieutenant General Hodges, Lieutenant General Harry Crerar, commanding the Canadian First Army, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, commanding the Anglo-Canadian 21st Army Group, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, commanding the 12th Army Group, and Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey, commanding the British Second Army
Lieutenant General Courtney H. Hodges, General Omar Bradley's deputy during the Normandy landings and subsequently commander of the U.S. First Army, part of the 12th Army Group, being decorated by Field Marshal Montgomery at Munchen Gladbach in Germany
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II, in the Hürtgen Forest, a
Courtney Hodges
…First Army liberated Paris and was the first Allied army to enter Nazi Germany. As Courtney's First Army front pushed towards Germany, he launched an offensive through the Hürtgen Forest, which resulted in severe casualties but limited gains. After the collapse of German forces at the Ruhr, the First Army advanced deep into Germany and…
Troops of the 28th Infantry Division advancing through the dense woodland of the Hürtgen Forest, November 2, 1944
Soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, moving through difficult terrain and trees broken by artillery. Hürtgen Forest, southwest of Düren, 18 November, 1944.
Artillery-damaged trees in the Hürtgen Forest
An American Jeep moving through a sea of mud in the Hürtgen Forest