[henkster]

I liked reading the list of promoted generals to see if I recognized any of them. Only three caught my eye:

Macon will command 83rd Infantry Division, which will race the 2nd Armored to the Elbe in the dash across Germany in March-April 1945.
Walter Lauer will command the 99th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge (and not capably by many accounts). It was a green division in its first combat, and had it not been paired with the veteran 2nd Infantry, it would likely have fared as badly as its neighbor, the 106th.
Norman Cota will be 2nd in command of 29th Infantry Division on D-Day (he was presumably played by Robert Mitchum in “The Longest Day”). He later commanded 28th Division when it was successively mauled in the Hurtgen Forest, sent to the Ardennes to rest, and mauled again in the Battle of the Bulge.

[BroJoeK]

henkster: "I liked reading the list of promoted generals to see if I recognized any of them.
Only three caught my eye:"

The name Walter Krueger means nothing to you? ;-)

[colorado tanker]

Hurtgen Forest was a disaster. It was not a necessary fight and Cota’s execution was poor.