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December 16 to January 25 1944
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Largest land battle for U.S. in Europe.
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Hitler’s Last Stand
I’m going to make a comeback!
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Ardennes Forest - Belgium
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German objectives: • Punch hole in Alllied lines• Get to port of Antwerp
(get gas by ship)• Split alliance between U.S.
and Britain
Outcome: Allied lines “bulge”. . .but don’t break.
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Over a million men fight
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500,000 Americans
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55,000 British.
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600,000 Germans
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Dec. 1944 •Allies advancing.
•Germans retreating.
•“Over by Christmas”
NOT YET
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Germans time the push with. . . A WINTER STORM
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Why? Allied air power grounded.
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• American GI’s taken prisoner by SS.
• 80 found shot in field.
Malmedy
S.S. Colonel Joachim Peiper’s orders
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• Bastogne key hub of 7 highways.
• Surrounded by Germans.
• American 101st holds town.
• Germans give ultimatum: “Surrender or Die.”
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“Go to Hell!”
General Anthony McAuliffe
Germans Surround U.S. Demand Surrender. U.S. replies . . .
NUTS!translator
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100,000 Germans killed, wounded or captured.
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Hitler squanders tanks men and supplies needed to hold off the Russians.
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Casualties :1400 British with 200 killed.
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81,000 U.S. with 19,000 killed