63^rd Infantry Division

The 63rd Infantry Division entered combat in early 1945 in the Alsace-Lorraine sector, conducting patrol and local offensive operations near Haguenau before attacking the West Wall near Saarbrücken on March 15. Hard fighting breached the fortifications north of Ensheim by March 18, and with the fall of key positions to the south, the West Wall was broken. After crossing the Rhine at Neuschloss on March 28, the division relieved the 44th Infantry Division and took evacuated Heidelberg after crossing the Neckar on March 30.

Continuing behind the 10th Armored Division, the division forced the Jagst River, fought house-to-house through Möckmühl, and enveloped the Hardenhäuser Forest before reducing Schwäbisch Hall with armored support by April 18. The 254th Infantry Regiment seized an intact bridge over the Rems at Böbingen on April 22, and the division reached the Danube on April 25, where it crossed on a damaged bridge at Riedheim and repulsed a German armored counterattack.

Relieved on April 28, the division shifted to security duties from the Rhine to Würzburg and Stuttgart, a role it held when hostilities ended on May 7, 1945. Though its combat service was brief, the division participated directly in the final penetration of Germany's western defenses and the rapid exploitation that followed.