European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Ltd territory 16 Vance 26 y germans 16 by Homer staff writer Twenty years Adolf Hitler was Luking a last desperate an fallout military offensive that was to snatch his nazi lec Lons from the jaws of and somehow save his dying it didst come and two to become Usa eur commander san major roles in frustrating the fuehrer plan to turn the tide of the the Brig Gen Anthony me made the history books when he answered nuts to a German demand to surrender his surrounded battered bustards of the the Brig Gen Bruce directed the defence of the vital town of holding the Unhold Bio town for six Days and wrecking the German timetable for Las ditch con in december the germans were in dire the allies had broken out of junes Normandy raced across prance to capture and drove on to the very frontiers of Ger in the the russians were scor a Ellini rolling Hock inc nazi tide hut Lead knifed inn the caucasus inn hammered at inc Kates of a loll Hitler needed a Quick Vir Inry to snip his lot Tenni the Arden nes Soun to be culled the Halle of the was to he his aim of inc codenamed wacht am Rhein watch on the Rhine by the was to strike on the thinly Snow blanketed ardennes drive a wedge Between the 1st and 3rd Cross we Meuse River some 60 Miles then race to the belgian port of Cut Ting off some 2s american possibility of Success depended on three things bad weather would have to keep Superior Allied Ulm Power grounded the attack had to be a sur prise and the main to the Meuse through had to be accomplished without the from the Gormar stand  have been dense Fos shrouded the operation und prevented any Allied air thin same fog had helped hide the fran Lac German so hut the Lam inc and scope of the attack caught the Allied defenders by but on the third rapid deployment through was a different the Dawn attack of saw 17 airman divisions slam Mlo the Amer ican in the Mam four in Fantry divisions and a paratroop Divi Sion of the 6th is Panzer army were to punch their Way through the ardennes followed by two elite divisions of the 1st is Panzer two Arm ored divisions of the 2nd is Panzer corps were to remain in Reserve to exploit the protected Meuse German dressed in uni forms and commanded by Mussolini the legendary col Otto Skone were to grab the Meuse Bridges and spread the powerful onslaught quickly opened two gaping holes in the to the a German column raced toward the town of but the 101st an sent to plug the reached the town first the 101st maj Gen Maxwell Tay Lor later to become chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and presently am Lia Stador to South Vietnam was in the a Ominik on i some sidelights and figures on the Battle of the bulge Otto so Renys elite dressed in uniforms and peaking perfect were dropped behind Allied lines at the Start of the ardennes their Mission to spread contusion and but gis quickly found a Way to smoke them suspicious soldiers were How Many homers did babe Ruth hit in 1927v the germans were dead the bulge Battle was costly to both american losses totalled men and 733 the germans lost 80 to 00 tanks and assault planes and other Advance German units got within four Miles of the but Lack of ammunition and gasoline brought them to a and they destroyed their vehicles and fled toward maj Gen Maxwell on leave in the answered a Christmas eve Telephone Call at his Home near As he watched his family trim their at he left without saying where he was merely that he had to soon thereafter the 101st an div co was parachuting into Bastogne to rejoin his embattled on a i from the 1st army Shook hands with one from the 3rd army at the town of the original us opened by the Oerman attack had been and Flie Battle of the bulge was col Joseph now a retired major handed Mcnaull rfcs nuts message to the German sur Render the officer Leader of the group said he under stood the word but not the it Means the same As to Harper told the in a Story published in the stars and stripes of 1945 Field marshal sir Bernard Montgomery la quoted As paying High tribute to american troops in his first Closs Fligh Llor he called he let me Tell you about the Captain of our Oen Elsen i am absolutely devoted to it of Levis me when i see uncomplimentary articles about him in the British t an american sergeant at upon hearing that lira germans had surrounded the town the poor Field marshal Gard von Overall commander of German troops during the ardennes always resented reference to the dying Effort of the German War machine As the von Rundstedt he insisted that he was Only following and evidence does Point to the fact that the plan was formulated by Gen Hasso von commander of the German 5th Panzer recently revealed that he on the that Germin id up the ardennes attack and return to the West reason too much time lost in the Voth Meuffels recommendation was turned Down by Lowmon Art Lallwy on Gulton and with among toll Token by Bat Logne 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