[Scrambler Bob]

M4L

[colorado tanker]

Never before heard of this story.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Great article, but if Mr. Vanderboegh thinks Kasserine Pass was a defeat, he didn’t pay attention to the ENTIRE battle.

[Uncle Miltie]

In a pinch, there are millions.

[DuncanWaring]

Oops - missed Lt. Woods' photo:

Errr ... strictly speaking, Cadet Woods at the time.

[Secret Agent Man]

this is the kind of history we ought to teach.

[MuttTheHoople]

It's a shame that you're average Princeton grad wouldn't make a good pimple on a horse's ass and probably looks like this:

[Sasparilla]

For more on the surprise and desperation of front line troops, see the reports to headquarters from the soldiers shocked by the German attacks in Belgium on 12/16/44 from 0110 till 2340 that day near the bottom of this early post today. Its worth reading.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3237697/posts

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[Boowhoknew]

well worth reading especially to patriots tired and weary of the fight. Is the Republic still safe?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Had a late friend who fought on Elsenborn Ridge, Joseph Langbart. One brave American soldier. RIP.

[kiryandil]

Thanks for posting this! The Ardennes Campaign is one of my favorite WWII studies, and I've never heard of this action.

Another action on December 16 put a monkey in the Krauts' wrench:

Lt. Lyle Bouck, his 18-man Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division, and the Battle of Lanzerath Ridge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lanzerath_Ridge

...Bouck considered the wounding of most of his men and the capture of his entire unit a failure.[2] He only later learned that because his platoon prevented the lead German infantry elements from advancing, armor units were backed up behind them for miles during the entire day...

Lyle Bouck - Badass of the Week, Dec 27, 2013
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=87588933208

I commemorate the opening of the Battle of the Bulge every year.

The cannons were squatty, humped-up, wicked looking pieces towed by great six-by-six trucks- three of thousands of the same type carried on Ordnance records aa "Howitzer, 105 mm., M1."

Let's not overlook the gunners manning the 57mm AT gun (Company "B", 526th Armored Infantry Battalion) at the bridges at Trois Ponts. Here's to those guys!

Here's a good book if you can get it:

The Damned Engineers
Janice Holt Giles
http://www.amazon.com/Damned-Engineers-Janice-Giles/dp/0395077443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418788361&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Damned+Engineers

[Oratam]

bfl

[kiryandil]

How these three howitzers for four days saved the right flank of the 82nd Airborne Division and of the Army at "Parker's Crossroads" is another story.

The rest of the [Battery A, 589th Field Artillery Battalion, 106th Infantry Division] story:

Parker's Crossroads
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
http://www.battleofthebulgememories.be/stories26/32-battle-of-the-bulge-us-army/659-parkers-crossroads.html

It's kind of sketchy, because it's a personal anecdote, but still good.

Moar & moar:

Battle of the Bulge Memories
http://www.battleofthebulgememories.be/home21.html

Stories - US Army
http://www.battleofthebulgememories.be/stories26/32-battle-of-the-bulge-us-army.html