Traveling through Charmes, Einvaux, etc. the 313th Regiment arrived in the vicinity of Landecourt about 04:00, today 19 September, 1944. At 07:00, the 1st Battalion was ordered to attack west to the highground just west of the Meurthe River. The 1st Battalion encountered enemy fire, but captured the high ground in the vicinity of Lamath. By 19:50, the 313th was set up in defensive position around Xermanenil.
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Hans G. Schantz is the Principal Scientist of Geeks and Nerds Corporation (GaN). He was co-founder and CTO of Q-Track Corporation until GaN's acquisition of Q-Track in 2019. Co-inventor of NFER indoor location technology, he has more than 40 U.S. patents to his credit. He is the author of The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas, The Biographies of John Charles Fremont, and the science fiction thriller, The Hidden Truth, available free through Kindle Unlimited. Dr. Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Huntsville, AL with his wife, Barbara, and four children.
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