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Museum of Hürtgenwald in 1944 and in Peacetime. The Battle of Hürtgen Forest in the autumn and winter of 1944 claimed the lives of thousands of German and American soldiers, as well as leaving villages, farmland and forest utterly devastated. Evacuated inhabitants returning to their homes at the end of the war saw the labour of generations ...
- Brandenburg
It was here that the leaders of the dominant Allied victors...
- Southern Germany
The remainder are men who were killed while escaping from...
- The Rhineland
liberation-route-europe-germany-rhineland; Objective of...
- Central Germany
The Military History Museum in Dresden is one of the few...
- Northern Germany
Montgomery halted on a line through Hamburg (liberated on 3...
- Berlin
A unique bilateral institution sponsored by the Federal...
- Crossing The Rhine
The course of war is sometimes dictated not by strategy, the...
- Brandenburg
May 7, 2013 · IN LATE OCTOBER 1944, the U.S. First Army set up its winter headquarters in the Belgian town of Spa. A flourishing resort since the 1500s—the German travel-guide publisher Karl Baedeker had called it “the oldest European watering-place of any importance”—Spa reached its zenith in the 18th century with visits by Peter the Great and other potentates keen to promenade beneath the elms or ...
Mar 3, 2023 · Found via reddit. The map above shows how the Soviet Union thought World War 3 might play out in Europe. The red mushroom clouds represent planned nuclear strikes on cities and targets in central Europe and the blue mushroom clouds represent the anticipated NATO response. The map was smuggled out by the Polish and delivered to the Americans ...
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II, in the Hürtgen Forest, a 140 km 2 (54 sq mi) area about 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Belgian–German border. [1]
- Buck Lanham’s Men Along The Three-Mile Front
- The Roer and The Aachen Bars The Way Into Germany
- A Great Sacrifice For A Few Miles of Frozen Rubble and Swampland
- The Elements Were Just as Fearsome A Foe
- General Bradley’s Major Blunder
- Echoes of The Great War
Moody and prone to depression, Lanham was described by some soldiers as brilliant but “crazy as hell,” while one officer said he wanted to win the war all by himself. But there was never any question of his courage. Stretched thinly, “Buck” Lanham’s regiment was responsible for a three-mile front in the 20-mile-by-10-mile Hürtgen Forest, situated i...
By September 1944, the British, American, and Canadian Armies were crowding against the borders of Germany. After the unexpected success of the Normandy breakout, the Allied high command believed that the enemy was virtually defeated. Euphoria clouded sound strategic judgment, and some rude awakenings lay ahead. The German Army was being pushed bac...
When the battle finally fizzled out, all the Americans had to show for their sacrifices were a few miles of tree stumps, shell holes, shattered buildings, and swamps. British troops played a minor part in the campaign, but they were able to gain new respect for the fighting spirit and fortitude of their allies. The Battle of Hürtgen Forest echoed t...
Besides the enemy and the weather, the GIs battled exhaustion, hunger, battle fatigue, pneumonia, and trench foot. They lacked sufficient boots and winter clothing, and hot meals and a dry place in which to sleep were almost nonexistent. The men in the forward companies spent long nights, half frozen in open foxholes with only their uniforms for pr...
At least 120,000 U.S. troops took part in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, and an estimated 24,000 were killed, wounded, or captured. Combat fatigue, pneumonia, and trench foot claimed another 9,000 men. When the appalling losses were revealed, some participants and high-ranking officers, both American and German, questioned the necessity of the campa...
The costly Battle of Hürtgen Forest seriously weakened Hodges’ First Army, with its extended front line unable to resist the German onslaught in the early hours of the Battle of the Bulge. The Big Red One and 9th Infantry Divisions had to depend almost entirely on replacements after Hürtgen, and the 4th and 8th Infantry Divisions also had big manpo...
Jan 1, 2012 · From mid September 1944 until the 9th Februari 1945, the U.S. Army fought it’s longest single battle ever recorded, also it’s longest battle on German soil, over an area of 50 square miles, now known as the battle of Hürtgen Forest. As a preliminary offensive for “Operation Queen” and with the main goal called “objective Schmidt ...
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