Henry Gorrell - Hour Of Decision

decision. I'm as a colonel. Ten fifty general. Ten fifty a.m. No word from the enemy, huh? No sir. All our posts are silent. All right. They're asking for it and they're going to get it.

Currently our decision has arrived. We attack Akhen. This is United Press correspondent Henry Garell reporting on the hour of decision at the doomed German city of Akhen. The day broke grey and cold. A white chilly mist shrouded the 1100-year-old city of German emperors.

But the German troops in Aachen were not worried about the chilly mist. Their concern was a more lethal poll over hanging the city. A call of tough American troops encircling the entire area, except for so-called suicide corridor less than a mile wide to the east.

That was the situation when the commanding American general told me at his headquarters. A few Germans might get through, but I don't think many will want to risk our artillery fire. Isn't there a possibility of the Germans from the outside attempting to widen that corridor and reinforce the Germans at Occam?

They'll never get through, Garell. The German garrison and civilians in Occam face two alternatives. Surrender or death? Take that call, Private Katie. Yes, sir. Hello? King Ford. It's one of us couplings over the corridor.

I'll take it. This is the right, Art King Ford. Go ahead. Message received, King Fora. Hello. Hello, get me headquarters. Hurry. Hello, Colonel Forbes. Scott Plains report enemy from the east, advancing on corridor with heavy armor.

Right. Right. Well, you're going to see something now. Colonel Forbes. Yes, sir? Batteries, A to F. Get the range and fire along the line. Yes, sir. And don't let up, you understand? Yes, sir. Watch the American long Tom Cannon's cut loose with a murderous barrage that's split the advancing German armored column in half.