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Battle of the Bulge, Hitler's Last offensive
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Posted on 12/17/2015 8:23:55 AM PST by WhiskeyX

Generals At War: Episode 06 The Battle of the Bulge The Greatest battle America ever fought was against Hitler's Army when it staged one of the last offensives of the war in Belgium against American troops who were alone and unprepared for the Nazi onslaught. Despite overwhelming odds American troops defeated the German Blitz preventing history from repeating itself as it did when Hitler first invaded Belgium in the begining of the war.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 3rdarmy; battleofthebulge; generalpatton; georgepatton; germany; history; thirdarmy; worldwareleven; ww2; wwii
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To: archy

Ya done good by those men Archy ..... God Bless Ya !!


81 posted on 12/21/2015 4:10:52 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: archy

OK, But Germany had neither the resources or the manpower to build a fission weapon in WW2.


82 posted on 12/21/2015 6:35:03 PM PST by nuke rocketeer (File CONGRESS.SYS corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)?)
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To: P-Marlowe
The Bulge was the last chance the Nazis had to slow the onslaught of the Allied invasion into Germany.

Had the Germans simply fallen back to the Rhine and attempted to hold that line, they would almost certainly have been better off. The Allies expected as much trouble crossing the Rhine as they had crossing the English Channel.

But after the Bulge, when the Allies reached the Rhine in March 1945, the Germans had no mobile reserves with which to hold it. They were destroyed in Belgium.

83 posted on 12/21/2015 6:39:07 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Revenge is a Daesh best served cold.)
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To: nuke rocketeer
OK, But Germany had neither the resources or the manpower to build a fission weapon in WW2.

As it turned out. Somebody thank the Eighth Air Force for their part in that, sil vous plait.

But of course, the Haigerloch material shows that without such interference they could indeed have created a sustaining fission pile, and could have easily come up with a *dirty bomb*- a very dirty bomb.

Just like Japan was trying to deliver to San Francisco in mid- August, 1946.

84 posted on 12/22/2015 7:20:52 AM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: WhiskeyX

Bump!


85 posted on 12/25/2016 6:09:59 PM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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