Tree-bursts.
The cold.
And yet they fought. The two elderly veterans I personally know who were involved in combat during the Bulge will each stress that they thought it was a make or break battle, when they feel like talking about it. One is my best freind's dad and he'll say that it was a heck of thing to go through when you're only nineteen years old and thought you would live forever. According to him, you got over that in one quick hurry.
The stories of Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes of the Battle of the Bulge http://www.worldwariihistory.info/Medal-of-Honor/Bulge.html
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Battle of the Bulge "NUTS" Comment at Bastogne-1944 =
Capt. HARRY W.O. KINNARD
Commanding General of the 1st Air Cavalry Division
during the Battle of the IA DRANG Valley-1965 =
Gen. HARRY W.O. KINNARD
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set3.htm
(3rd Photo - General KINNARD greeting his Victorious 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry SkyTroopers at An Khe Base Camp after the 1st Major Battle of the Vietnam War in the Valley of Death known as the IA DRANG)
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Didn't see 30 divisions mount up?
Eisenhower should be fired!
/sarcasm