Im no WW2 historian. I’d like to get someone else’s opinion on what would have happened if Hitler/Germany Army had won the Battle of the Bulge?
The German offensive was about taking back the port of Antwerp, the allied taking of which had greatly increased the ability to bring in the cargo needed to support the vast allied armies. Had the Germans been able to make their timetables, they might have retaken Antwerp and cut our available resources. Since the virtual starvation diet caused by supply bottlenecks (and by Monty) hadn't stopped US forces from rolling right up to Germany, it's difficult to believe that it would have done more than delay the end of the war.
The reason crossroads were important was that the movement of the German vehicles would be bottled up. Those German tanks were really nice, but the roads in France were still largely unimproved, making large formations difficult at best to move to a common destination.
The US Sherman tank, by contrast, for all its supposed problems, was almost ideally suited for war in France -- it was fast and narrow, could slide through hedgerow lanes and those crooked narrow medieval streets in the scenic (or formerly scenic) villages, and take basically any road or cowpath, making it possible to arrive at objectives with massive numerical superiority.
Some time ago I read an anecdote -- a German tank commander had been captured, and was grousing about how his tank was the equal of ten Shermans. The GI guarding him shifted the cigarette in his mouth and said, "that's why we brought eleven."
The Germans couldn’t have won in The Bulge. Once the skies cleared they were done for. And the fact that the Bulge really resembled a funnel in that the farther the Germans penetrated, the narrower their front became. What’s truly stupid, if I may say so, is how Eisenhower chose to counter attack. Much the same as six months before in the Falasie Pocket in France where the Germans were surrounded and virtually annihilated they found themselves in a similar situation in The Ardennes. The Germans seemed to have a positive talent for creating salients . And anyone who knows enough about military tactics knows a salient in your enemy’s line can be a dangerous thing.
Basically the Germans had pushed aside Bradley’s First Army
to the north and Patton’s Third Army to the south. Eisenhower could simply have ordered Patton to attack to the north and Bradly to attack south and cut the Germans off. Instead he chose a frontal assault that, ironically caused more American casualties then initial German assault.