Vivid new Battle of the Bulge photos offer never-before-seen look....

Dailymail ^ | 12-17-11

[InvisibleChurch]

Breath taking pics...

[momtothree]

Amazing photos, InvisibleChurch. Can’t you just feel the cold?! It just looks bitterly cold.

[InvisibleChurch]

They are better men than me.

[JosephMama]

That photo of Adolph looks like der Untergaang.

[svcw]

Nice pix, very interesting. The one of the 15 year old German kid was actually very sad.

[adorno]

I didn’t see John Wayne in any of those photographs. What’s up with that?!?

BTW, were those photos colorized, or where they originally in color?

[Red_Devil 232]

Excellent post!

[momtothree]

My husband’s Uncle was there. He told family members that he was never so cold in his life and hoped he would never be cold again.

[Red_Devil 232]

Better than me too!

[Drew68]

The one of the 15 year old German kid was actually very sad.

Not really. The war was over for him and on much better terms than his counterparts on the Eastern Front faced.

Chances are good he went on to live a long and comfortable life in West Germany.

He might not have known it at the time but he was very fortunate.

[hinckley buzzard]

I had the privilege of speaking at length with a veteran who was in the seige of Bastogne. They had to pee on their weapons to get them to work, and had no winter uniforms. When I first asked him, he just got this look in his eye and said, "Yeah, Belgium. F*ing Belgium...it was sooo cold..."

Needless to say, he thought highly of George Patton and the Third Army.

[mylife]

Fascinating.

[Lady Lucky]

Hitler’s looking a little photoshopped there!

[abb]

for your file.

[razorback-bert]

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[bleach]

And I complain about shaving with cold water. One tough dude.

[Twotone]

My brother-in-law’s father was in the march to relieve Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe. The only comment I ever heard about his march was that he ‘didn’t like Patton much.’

Too bad the men who experienced this wouldn’t talk about it much. My own father was a pilot instructor. He got orders to go overseas three times, but they were always rescinded. They were too desperate for instructors.

[CatherineofAragon]

Thank you so much for this. My late father fought in this battle. I know it’s silly, but when I see pics/films from the BOTB, I always look at the faces to see if one of them might be him.