Christmas 1944: When U.S. Troops Said ‘Nuts!’ to the Enemy

CNSNews ^ | December 24, 2010 | Pete Winn

[Yorlik803]

The battle of the Hurtgen Forrest was the bloodiest battle of the war. The US 28th div{Bloody Bucket because the red Keystone look like a bloody bucket. It was a PA Nat Guard unit} Was almost destroyed.
But as a interesting side note, A German LT crawled into a mine field to rescue a wounded GI and was killed. The US put a marker stone with the Whermacht officer's name on it as a Memorial to him. it is the only time the army did that for a enemy solider.

[kneehurts]

Good thing for our troops that we never had to face more then 1/8 of the German Army. While the Battle of the Bulge was happening the other 7/8 of the German army was being smashed to pieces by our friends the commies. Stalin had told his generals before the Normandy invasion that he did not need the anglo american invasion to finish off the Germans. It is commendable that our brave heroes died to prevent the Soviets from over running all of Europe. It almost makes me want to cry that the Soviets actually won in the end with our communist commander in-chief and his evil minions...

[PzLdr]

My Pop fought in the Huertgen Forest with the 4th I.D. Jumped into a well [thought it was a foxhole] while trying to rescue a surrounded infantry unit. Got such bad frostbite they had to medevac him to England.

[Thunder 6]

The fighting along the Kall trail was almost sureal. My grandmother remembers the terrible, long casualty lists of “Pennsylvania Division” soldiers being printed daily in the Philadelphia papers, but no one knew why they were suddenly so many WIA/KIA because of the censorship...

regards,

[Thunder 6]

sureal=surreal
they=there

[HenpeckedCon]

Pick up your weapon and follow me, we lead the infantry!