The Rhineland Campaign, 1944
In the second week of December, CIC and G-2, First Army, performed a full-scale security check in Monschau to discover and arrest unregistered persons and to discourage would-be spies.
Fifty-four three-man teams descended on the town before dawn on the morning of the 9th.
At every house, one member of a team stood guard outside, one gathered all the residents in one room and checked their registration, and the third secured all the keys to locked doors and drawers and searched the building from top to bottom.
Everybody checked was found to be registered.
The contraband picked up amounted to a few cameras and binoculars, some pieces of German military uniforms, and some US rations. No one was arrested.
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