 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kweiyi ndima - Kutevera kuparadzwa kwayo padhuze neFalaise, iro divi rakaramba riri muGerman Siegfried Line kwaakarwa hondo dzinoverengeka, kunyanya Hondo yeAachen. Mumwedzi wakatevera, rakarasikirwa navarume vanopfuura 1.000, zvikamu zviviri muzvitatu zvesimba raro rokurwa. Pakupera kwaSeptember 1944, 9th Panzer Division yakatumirwa kuArmy Group Bs reserve uye yakagadziriswazve. Yakapiwa 11 000 dzimwe dzokutsiva uye motokari dzehondo 178, kubatanidza 50 Panther tanks. Yaifanira kusimbisa mauto echiGermany akanga achirwisa Operation Market Garden, asi panguva yaakasvika muArnhem, mauto eAllied akanga adzoserwa shure. 9th Panzer Division yakadzoserwa kumutsetse wakapoteredza Geilenkirchen neAachen, uko yakatanga kurwisa kwakaparadza mauto eUS muPeel Marshes munaNovember, asi yakangobudirira kurasikirwa nematanki makumi matatu mukuita. Yakabva yaunganazve kumadokero kwerwizi Rur ine simba revarume 10 000, matangi 28 ePanther uye matangi 14 ePanzer IV. Pamwe chete nezvikamu zve15th Panzer Grenadier Division, 9th Panzer vakarwa hondo inorwadza yemazuva matanhatu neUS 2nd Armored Division muPuffendorf-Immendorf sector, vachirova matangi makumi manomwe nematanhatu uye vachikuvadza vanhu chiuru nemazana matatu vachitambura varume chiuru nemazana masere nematanhatu. Zvichitevera izvi, divi racho rakatumirwa kuOKW reserve. Rakaramba richirwisana kuti ridzikise kufambira mberi kweU.S. First Army ichisundira kumadokero, ichiparadza tangi rayo re 2,325th pedyo neGeilenkirchen. 