The terrain was difficult, with steep slopes surrounding the town. The one most of the GIs would become familiar with was at the western end. There were also two railroad underpasses going beneath the tracks at both ends of the town. ![]() Flix Catholic Church and the train station. In the town proper were the Wenk Hotel, the St. One of the key features of the small hamlet was a railroad line that sat on an embankment above the town and just below a ridge that dominated it to the north. But it was here that GIs of the 70th 'Trailblazers' Infantry Division engaged in some of the most intense combat of the Alsatian campaign. Outwardly, Wingen-sur-Moder (Wingen on the Moder River) was just a typical French village nestled in the Hardt Mountains. Originally published by World War II magazine.
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