#ThisDayinHistory Early on the misty winter morning of 16 December - TopicsExpress



          

#ThisDayinHistory Early on the misty winter morning of 16 December 1944, over 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitlers last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes that had begun when Allied troops landed in France on D-day. Seeking to drive to the English Channel coast and split the Allied armies as they had done in May 1940, the Germans struck in the Ardennes Forest, a seventy-five-mile stretch of the front characterized by dense woods and few roads, held by four inexperienced and battle-worn U.S. Army American divisions stationed there for rest and seasoning. HISTORY US Army Center of Military History
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 03:04:04 +0000

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