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American Glider Troops at the Battle of the Bulge
U.S. glider troops fought tenaciously to hold the crossroads town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
Here s What You Need to Know: Marvie is a quiet town nestled in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium. A farming village with a population of several hundred people, history has almost forgotten the town, but on one day in December 1944, Marvie lay astride a road that led to another town Bastogne. If the German panzergrenadiers and tanks had overrun the glider infantrymen who defended Marvie, they might have taken Bastogne, and the history of the Battle of Bulge would have been radically different.
Battle for Hill 112: The Allied Key To Victory in Normandy
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel declared that whoever held Hill 112 would hold the key to all of Normandy. It would become the scene of one of the fiercest battles of the campaign.
Here s What You Need to Know: Although the British failed to secure the summit of Hill 112, they succeeded in denying it to the Germans.
The Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, produced a bitter struggle for control of the invasion beachhead. Slowly, the Allies expanded and reinforced, fighting all the time in dense bocage country dominated by hills and hedgerows against an enemy whose skill and determination extracted a high price in men and equipment.
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Hitler s Bodyguards Tried to Take Bastogne and Failed
The division had been ordered to fight through unsuitable terrain, starved of essential supplies, and denied the air support this type of operation demanded.
The story of Hitler’s Bodyguard, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte (LAH), in the battle for Bastogne does not begin until after the siege of that city had been raised by the U.S. 4th Armored Division, part of General George Patton’s Third Army, on December 26, 1944. By then the American Bastogne salient posed such a threat to the flank and rear of German Army Group B that it could no longer be ignored in fact, by then Bastogne was becoming the center of gravity of the whole Battle of the Bulge.