Senin, 13 Februari 2017

First Blood on the Ghost Front

Before the Allies won the Battle of the Bulge, the German spearpoint ripped an American division apart. THE FIRST EXPLOSIONS came as a jolt. At 5:30 on the wintry morning of Saturday, December 16, 1944, the American troops atop the Schnee Eifel in the Ardennes Forest weren’t expecting action. Only days before, the 106th Infantry …

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