Westwall - Remains Bunker Ormont

On February 27, 1945, the 87th US Infantry Division had finished preparing to break through the Westwall at Ormont. They were stationed on a 7 km front between Scheid and Kobscheid.
The Westwall here had 2 defense lines, the first consisting of dragon's teeth barricades with barbed wire at the foot of the hills and in the woods on the hills were bunkers that could deliver interlinked fire. In addition, there were minefields and at the intersections and the roads there were roadblocks.
After the 346th Infantry Regiment had gotten stuck on a roadblock where the L20 and the B265 now intersect on February 27, the 347th Infantry Regiment (3 Battalion, Company K and L) was ordered to clear the roadblock on February 28.
On the left side of the road was a minefield covered by a bunker and this bunker was captured. At the crossroads the attack axis turned to the left, with the 2 companies continuing on each side of the road through the woods, taking out bunkers but also leaving certain bunkers for the troops that followed them to capture.
Company L was on the left side of the road, where most of the bunkers were, taking out some bunkers and passing others and leaving these for the troops that came after them.
In total there were 21 bunkers in this part of the woods that are part of the Westwall.
At this location is 1 of the bunkers of the Westwall that was on the attack axis of Company L of the 374th Infantry regiment.

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Source

• Text: Gio Theunissen
• Photos: Gio Theunissen