The Germans had another idea, and they struck back in the Ardennes Forest along a 75-mile-long remote front line held by four American Army divisions stationed there. Many U.S. Army units were ...
Seeking to drive to the coast of the English Channel and split the Allied armies as they had done in May 1940, the Germans struck in the Ardennes Forest, a 75-mile stretch of the front ...
Even before Allied intelligence soon confirmed it, Clarke's combat experience convinced him this thrust toward St. Vith was the German main attack - it overlapped and paralleled the Ardennes ...
The all-but-defeated German army launched a great offensive along the 85-mile front of Ardennes forest in Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge was the last great advance of ...
Germans launched a bombing raid on Christmas ... The siege had been broken, and so had the Ardennes offensive. Hitler’s grand gambit had failed. In his message on Christmas Eve, General ...
The nights were cold; most all saw the thermometer dip well below freezing. And there was snow, huge flakes that covered the ground, turning the landscape into a winter wonderland. But it wasn’t ...