He spent a week in First Army Hospital in Versailles and rejoined his division in Belgian town of Tongres, where the division's progress was halted due to fuel shortages and quagmire roads. The 30th Division then proceeded to the Netherlands, where they liberated the town of Kerkrade on September 25, 1944 and advanced to Germany, where they took part in the combat on the Siegfried Line and subsequently in the battle of heavily defended city of Aachen on October 2.