90 Infantry Division (USA) hold the line Longvilly

By the night of January 16th the 90th held a line facing east from Longvilly on the left through Oberwampach and Niederwampach on the right. It now became evident that the enemy was attempting orderly withdrawal from the area. Convoys of vehicles stretched endlessly on the roads leading out of the Rundstedt "Bulge". But skies which had been previously overcast now cleared and yielded to Allied control of the air. The German retreating columns were mercilessly pounded, while the 90th's artillery joined in the holocaust of fire, inflicting irreparable damage to the German machine... the same machine which had proudly boasted one month before that Paris was its objective.