The story
The same decision which relieved the 242nd of its Vosges positions also freed the 222nd from its blocking mission and the regiment was instructed to move northward to the extreme left flank of the 79th Division sector to relieve the 315th Infantry of that division in the vicinity of Soultz Sous Forets.
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