[SAMWolf]

Yep. They held out until Patton drove up from the south and punched a corrider through to them.

Ironically the heaviest fighting came after the encirclement was broken.

[Darksheare]

That sounds somehow... like a parody?
The fighting was worse after they were recontacted?

I'm afraid I didn't pay too much attention to my grandfather's accounts of the war. He was fond of making it sound oddly humorous. (He had a more twisted sense of humor than I.)
He stated that he had a knife once, we had been talking about the bayonet I was issued and the fact that the point broke off while opening an MRE, and that he'd given it to a German. Well, we'd never heard that he'd been friends with a German so we asked him what the German said when he'd given the guy his knife.
Grandpa goes, "He said 'AAuuuuugh.'"
That's a sample of what talking to him about his experiences was like.

[Darksheare]

Correction: Counter-intuitive.
Coffee machine wasn't on this morning.
Gonna remedy that right now so's I'm not babbling like a dork here.