It is the 75 anniversary of The Battle of the Bulge

[Dan Dlabay]

It is the 75 anniversary of The Battle of the Bulge one the most important battles of WWII. A last ditch effort by Hitler to stop the allied advance into Germany.



https://www.foxnews.com/world/allies...ge-anniversary

[Mike Mercury]

from Wikipee:

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of the war in Europe. The offensive was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy four Allied armies and force the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor.

The Germans achieved a total surprise attack on the morning of 16 December 1944, due to a combination of Allied overconfidence, preoccupation with Allied offensive plans, and poor aerial reconnaissance due to bad weather. American forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties of any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces, and they were largely unable to replace them. German personnel and, later, Luftwaffe aircraft (in the concluding stages of the engagement) also sustained heavy losses.

The Germans' initial attack involved 410,000 men; just over 1,400 tanks, tank destroyers, and assault guns; 2,600 artillery pieces; 1,600 anti-tank guns; and over 1,000 combat aircraft, as well as large numbers of other armored fighting vehicles (AFVs). These were reinforced a couple of weeks later, bringing the offensive's total strength to around 450,000 troops, and 1,500 tanks and assault guns. Between 63,222 and 98,000 of these men were killed, missing, wounded in action, or captured. For the Americans, out of a peak of 610,000 troops, 89,000 became casualties out of which some 19,000 were killed. The "Bulge" was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II and the third deadliest campaign in American history.

[DJ_Critterus]

I love watching all of the war documentaries especially on this subject. Netflix or Prime (can't remember) has a new docu-series out about WWII and one of the episodes is on this battle. It's really worth the time to watch it.

[Jobaka]

N U T S !

[K-Spaz]

Originally Posted by Dan Dlabay

It is the 75 anniversary of The Battle of the Bulge one the most important battles of WWII. A last ditch effort A drug crazed fantasy by Hitler to stop the allied advance into Germany.



https://www.foxnews.com/world/allies...ge-anniversary

Fixt...

[K-Spaz]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

I love watching all of the war documentaries especially on this subject. Netflix or Prime (can't remember) has a new docu-series out about WWII and one of the episodes is on this battle. It's really worth the time to watch it.

The early episodes of the (I believe new) series WW2 In Color have some fairly good info leading up to the war. Stuff that didn't involve the USA, and lots of sutff that's otherwise not been reported much on. Was pretty good.

[sublime1996525]

My grandpa was there

[dwjz06]

[Olustee bus]

My Uncle was a half-track driver there and his truck broke down just before crossing the River Meuse into the forest. His commanding officer told him to stay with it until fixed. It is very likely that spared his life. My Grandmother knew he was in Germany near that area and that is all. She did not hear from him for months after the battle. He brought back several artifacts from there including a nazi flag, a bayonet and some other things.

[Rodnok1]

Hell of a thing they did during the worst of conditions.

[Grey Ghost]

My uncle was there or helped during the breakout in his crappy M10. He survived the war. But, we were way out gunned by the big German armor guns.