87th Infantry Division Campaign Map

The 87th Infantry Division, known as the Golden Acorn, arrived in Scotland on 22 October 1944 and landed in France during the first week of December 1944. It entered comabt at Metz when it took over a sector where Fort Jeanne d'Arc still held out. The Golden Acorn Division soon moved to the Saar-German border and attacked near Rimling and the Blies, but the Ardennes counteroffensive quickly redirected its campaign northward.

In the Bulge, the division fought through the winter terrain west of Bastogne and toward St. Hubert, Tillet, the Ourthe, and the St. Vith region. After helping reduce the German salient, it shifted again to the Luxembourg-German frontier, where it attacked across the Our and into the West Wall. Fighting through Manderfeld, Auw, Ormont, and the Kyll River line, the division moved from defensive crisis into sustained offensive operations.

By March, the 87th division had crossed the Moselle and fought house-to-house for Koblenz. It then crossed the Rhine near Braubach and Boppard, expanded its bridgehead to the Lahn, and advanced through the Thuringian Forest toward the Saale. Its final positions lay near the Czechoslovak border. The route is one of repeated redirection: Metz, the Bulge, the West Wall, the Rhine, and the final push east.

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