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18 Oct 2022 9:42 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "Painfull Lessons we can Learn from the Battle..." to "Painful lessons we can learn from the battle..."
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| Tango01 | 18 Oct 2022 9:32 p.m. PST |
… BATTLE OF THE BULGE
"On a cold, foggy morning 77 years ago, the U.S. military nearly suffered one of its worst defeats.
From out of the misty forests of the Ardennes region of Belgium, 30 German divisions and more than a thousand tanks and self-propelled assault guns emerged in a surprise offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler's plan was a long shot: attack the center of the Allied lines in Northwest Europe, split the American and British armies in two, encircle and destroy the American armies, and capture the vital Belgian port of Antwerp. Maybe – just maybe – Operation Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) could save the Third Reich before it was crushed between the Allied armies from the West and the Soviet armies from the East…" Main page link
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ScottWashburn  | 21 Oct 2022 2:01 p.m. PST |
In spite of the mistakes that were made, the Bulge was the American Army's finest hour. |
| Murvihill | 22 Oct 2022 4:29 a.m. PST |
One of the things we learned from Iwo Jima and Okinawa was that it was better for the enemy to waste themselves on a failed attack, even if our side suffered a bit, than for them to stick to a flexible defense and force us to winkle them out of successive positions. It takes more time and our casualties add up higher.
Bulge was expensive for us but ultimately more expensive for the Germans. |
| Blutarski | 24 Oct 2022 3:17 p.m. PST |
One of the things we learned from Iwo Jima and Okinawa was that it was better for the enemy to waste themselves on a failed attack The Japanese learned the same lesson as well. IIRC, Saipan saw the last big (and futile) Banzai charge. See the tenacious Japanese defense of "The Sugarloaf" on Okinawa; they repulsed sixteen successive well supported attacks on their position before giving it up. B |
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goes beyond the straight line.
