Retraction + Counterattack


In the heat of battle, I momentarily confused AR***NNE
with AR**NNE* (Argonne with Ardennes)

Battle Of the Bulge centered around the Ardennes.

However, Eisenhower HQ on the night of the German counter-offensive was at Verdun

Hey, while we're at it;


Eery similarities; WW1 and WW2 Ardennes Offensives


WW1 Ardennes
The German troops started moving through the forest on August 19. Conditions worsened, and by the time the two armies met, the forest was covered in a deep fog, resulting in the two forces stumbling into one another. At first, the French took the Germans as a light screening force; however, in reality the French were heavily outnumbered. The first day of the battle consisted of light skirmishes; the main battle did not begin until August 21.[6]

List of Millitary Engagement World War 1 - Battle of the Ardennes [link to en.wikipedia.org]


German WWII Ardennes offensive began Decdember 19. Allied Air support cut off by fog as I remember.

Battle of the Bulge/Ardennes
[link to www.historynet.com]




WW1 & WW2 Battle of Lorraine/Verdun


Q.Where was Patton and 3rd Army before the battle of the Bulge?
A.Verdun area

Fought over same ground as Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871

Verdun and 1871 War

[link to books.google.com]

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World War 1 engagements (see Battle of Lorraine) [link to en.wikipedia.org]

World War 2 Battle of Lorraine [link to www.history.army.mil]



Patton's Famous Relief of Bastogne


If anyone remembers the scenes leading up to Pattons 3rd Army swing towards the North from Nancy to relieve Bastogne.



Patton had already thought hard about the operation, for he saw no other avenue for the relief of Bastogne. More than breaking a siege, the risky turnaround was essential to reducing the burgeoning Bulge. Yet the town was 125 difficult, wintry miles from the bulk of the Third Army. In two days and nights about a hundred thousand troops, with thousands of supply trucks, tanks, self-propelled guns, and other vehicles, had to slog over roads that barely existed beneath the mud, ice, and snow. Since blackout restrictions meant nothing in the poor visibility and lack of enemy air traffic, drivers kept their lights on. In the miserable terrain, communications teams had to lay and network nearly twenty thousand miles of wire.


Folks, 100,000 men, 125 miles, 48 Hours, No Way.....


Patton's Account
[link to www.historynet.com]


CHRIST