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Battle. On March 30, 1945, seven German Tiger II tanks rolled south, heading for Fritzlar. 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) northeast of Fritzlar, the Tigers fought a meeting engagement with an armored spearhead of the U.S. Third Army, resulting in damage or destruction to six U.S. tank destroyers.
Named for the town of Fulda, the Fulda Gap became seen as strategically important during the Cold War of 1947–1991. The Fulda Gap roughly corresponds to the route along which Napoleon chose to withdraw his armies after defeat (16–19 October 1813) at the Battle of Leipzig.
U.S. use of the term seems to have emerged sometime between the close of the Second World War in Europe and 1946. While the U.S. Third Army’s official report of operations describes the army’s advance through the Fulda area in 1945, the term “Fulda Gap” does not appear in this work.
The cavalry had as many as 3,000 soldiers from the end of World War II until 1993. Not all those soldiers were in Fulda proper, but scattered over observation posts and in the cities of Bad Kissingen and Bad Hersfeld.
WORLD WAR II. Near the end of war, when Anglo-American forces raced eastward across Germany toward the Elbe River, the Third U.S. Army swept through the southern part of the Fulda area, early Apr 1945. The First. U.S. Army did likewise in the northern end. See: Dyer, George. XII Corps: Spearhead of Patton's Third Army.
Feb 1, 2024 · 01 Feb 2024. share post a comment. It was known as the ‘Hottest Spot of the Cold War’. The time between World War II and the end of the Cold War was certainly one for excessive hyperbole and over-exaggerations, but there was nothing OTT about the way in which the Fulda Gap was described.
World War II is appropriately called “Hitler’s war.” Germany was so extraordinarily successful in the first two years that Hitler came close to realizing his aim of establishing hegemony in Europe. But his triumphs were not part of a strategic conception that secured victory in the long run. Nonetheless, the early successes were spectacular.
