This was the situation when, on December 16, Hitler struck back with his long-planned counteroffensive. From the bulge created in Allied lines it came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. Assisted by the West Wall, excellent defensive terrain along the frontier, and the Allied supply problems, the Germans through the fall had [...]
Battle of the Bulge
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Jan 252012
Operation Nordwind
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Jan 252012
In planning for a winter counteroffensive, Hitler at one point had considered striking not in the Ardennes but in Alsace. When the Ardennes counteroffensive began to go badly and it became obvious that Eisenhower was moving divisions from the south into the Ardennes, he looked again toward Alsace. As the plan was finally determined, the [...]
Drive to the Rhine
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Jan 252012
As the First and Third armies eliminated the last of the bulge in the Ardennes at the end of December, General Bradley wanted to continue the attack through the Eifel south of the dams on the upper Roer River, which were still in German hands. Field Marshall Montgomery, on the other hand, demanded that the [...]