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part of the Division also participating in the Maritime 
Alps Campaign; 
Whereas the Division participated in the liberation of the 
French province of Alsace in late November, 1944, and 
on December 13, 1944, joined the rest of the 7th Army 
in attacking the strongly fortified positions of the Sieg-
fried Line inside Germany, and was there engaged in bat-
tle on December 19, when General Dwight D. Eisen-
hower ordered the 7th Army to withdraw from Germany 
in response to the serious threat posed by a major Ger-
man offensive in the Ardennes; 
Whereas when the German army launched Operation 
Nordwind, the last major German offensive of the Euro-
pean war, against 7th Army positions, the Division en-
gaged several German divisions between January 1 and 
January 7, 1945, contributing materially to stopping the 
initial German attacks; 
Whereas it was during one of these engagements on January 
3 and 4, 1945, that the Division’s Private First Class 
George B. Turner earned the Medal of Honor for his he-
roic actions in helping to repel repeated German attacks 
at Philippsbourg, France; 
Whereas, on January 9, 1945, the Division stopped the Ger-
man XXXIX Panzer Corps from breaking through the 
7th Army’s lines at the villages of Hatten and 
Rittershoffen; 
Whereas, between January 9 and January 21, 1945, the Di-
vision fought the 21st Panzer Division, 25th Panzer 
Grenadier Division, 20th Regiment of the 7th Parachute 
Division, and the 104th Regiment of the 47th 
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Volksgrenadier Division to a standstill during the ensuing 
Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen; 
Whereas units of the Division were awarded two Presidential 
Unit Citations for their actions at Hatten and 
Rittershoffen; 
Whereas, on March 24, 1945, after days of heavy fighting, 
the Division broke through the Siegfried Line and ad-
vanced to the Rhine River; 
Whereas, after crossing the Rhine River, the Division liber-
ated Stalag XIII–C and Oflag XIII–B, two large prisoner 
of war camps at Hammelburg, Germany; 
Whereas, during April 1945, the Division rapidly advanced 
hundreds of miles across southern Germany, fighting nu-
merous battles before crossing the Danube River north of 
Munich; 
Whereas, on April 29, 1945, the Division, after a fierce en-
gagement with several thousand SS troops, liberated Sta-
lag VII–A, the largest prisoner of war camp in Germany; 
Whereas the Division is designated a ‘‘Liberating Unit’’ by 
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in rec-
ognition of its liberation of approximately 250,000 civil-
ians of many nationalities and ethnicities from forced 
labor and concentration camps, including several large 
sub-camps of the notorious Dachau concentration camp 
system; 
Whereas the Secretary of the Army awarded the Division the 
distinctive unit designation, ‘‘Liberators’’, in recognition 
of the Division’s role in liberating approximately 30,000 
members of the Armed Forces of the United States and 
170,000 Allied military personnel from German prisoner 
of war camps; and 
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Whereas the proud fighting tradition and accomplishments of 
the Division and its men, especially those who made the 
ultimate sacrifice, must not be forgotten: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recog-
nizes the exemplary service and sacrifice of the soldiers 
of the 14th Armored Division of the United States Army, 
known as the Liberators, during World War II. 
Æ 
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