I have been to this battle site in the Hürtgen Forest area. As a scout master and/or an assistant scout master, I took our troop there 4 times between 2000-2003. We were actually there on 7 Dec 2002, with a historian who read from the Hürtgen Forest trail Medical position, accounts of the battle and the truce that allowed both German and American soldiers to hold a truce and together recover the dead and wounded. We stood on very site where pictures were taken during WWII. After that we went to the German 77th Division Cemetery where the last surviving member was the caretaker; he told us some stories which probably met more to me than the boys.
Wow, great post.