It might be helpful to briefly recount the plan which Hitler had conceived resulting in the Battle of the Bulge. This action was the beginning of what the world has since known as the Battle of the Bulge, which lasted into January of 1945, and cost the Americans 90,000 dead and wounded and the Germans 110,000. The artillery barrage was followed by approximately 500 German tanks, the frightening Panzers ranging from the Panther tank to the giant Tiger tanks, and over 400,000 German infantry who stormed across the front engaging the unsuspecting American troops who were put to rout in many instances and surrounded in others. to be more precise, 2,000 pieces of German artillery opened fire along a 80-mile front running from Belgium down into Luxembourg, aimed at hapless and unsuspecting American soldiers trying to stay warm in their foxholes or moving to the rear in an attempt to find a hot breakfast. Seventy-three years ago this weekend, Dec.
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