[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[cripplecreek]

My grandfather lost one of his toes to frostbite and the hearing in one ear to German 88 mm fire in the Ardennes.

[wbill]

I watched the 60s movie "Battle of the Bulge" with my Grandfather.

When it was over, I asked him what he thought of the flick. You see, he had caught it "on its original showing", as he blithely put it.

He thought for a sec, and said "It was a fine movie, but no one looked cold enough."

[Hot Tabasco]

Can’t you just feel the cold?! It just looks bitterly cold

I can't imagine having to fight in those conditions. Endless cold destroys the body, the mind and the spirit.....

As a kid growing up in northern Michigan, I loved the winter and all the sports opportunities it provided. As an adult, winter becomes the most depressing time of the year and the hardest to cope with......

As an addendum to your comment, they did not have the warmth enhancing clothing we have today. Frostbite was a major problem for those soldiers fighting in the winter......frozen feet, frozen hands and fingers....endless cold