Huh? It shook American confidence to the core.
You have to wonder about somebody who doesn't know where the battle took place or the effect it had on the GI's and America.
My mother in law was a girl at the time and remembers Christmas 1944 was a gloomy time. All anyone could think about was those GI's trapped in Bastogne.
After the Battle was over and Germany suffered a defeat it could not recover from things looked better. However, the Allies were basically where they had been on December 1, 1944. Meanwhile, Russia had driven almost to the gates of Berlin.
Get the feeling the folks doing the podcast should have at least read a Wikipedia article before providing their expert analysis....
BTW, I’ve read several books on the battle during the last 6 months. But I don’t feel qualified to discuss squat all about it.
I know that what you say is true, but I read in Omar Bradley’s own book that, from the very beginning, he was confident of victory and actually saw it as an opportunity to destroy the German army.