The Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last stab at victory in WWII. It lasted from December 16,1944 until January 28,1945. It was the largest land battler of WWII, which was mostly determined by the infantry.
Over one million men participated in this battle including 600,000 German's, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British. Civilians, men, women, and children joined Hitler's Secret Service army.
Late in 1944 Germany was clearly loosing the war Allies were bombing Germany heavily and Hitler was in a bomb shelter. Some people thought he was dead. While in the shelter he was planning his last attempt to slow the Allied invasion. He planned it down to the smallest detail. Hitler assigned the attack to be somewhere between the Aachan area and the Southern Luxembourg-France boundary an eighty-mile front. The plan estimated four and five millions of gallons of fuel along with a fifty train loads of ammunition.
Germany seemed to be spread thinly along their border. They would patrol the border during
At 5:30AM on December 6, 1944 they found out they were wrong when eight German armored divisions and thirteen German infantry division launched an all out attack on five divisions of the U.S. first army. At least 657 light, medium, and heavy guns and Howitzers. As well as 340 multiple-rocket launchers were fired on American positions. We surrendered.
The main reason we surrendered was because of lack of ammunition. The German general took the captain of one infantry, sat him on the hood of a jeep placed a gun to his head and drove him around showing him to all the SS soldiers like a trophy. On December 17th American Seventh armored division engaged Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army at St. Vith. St. Vith was a major road that led to the Meuse River and to Antwerp. The American division was successful in halting the German advance and caused them to take a detour. Which slowed the Germans down and altered the timing of the German attack plan.
Infantry reported hearing the sound of tanks and trucks coming from the German s
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