Posted on 05/04/2014 3:36:52 PM PDT by navysealdad
Breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offer a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter.
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How is it good? Its an image of a constript whose life was terrribly damaged by war.
I recall an open topped M18, but it’s so bad that I’d rather concede than watch it again to check
I had a jackass history teacher in 10th grade. The question was “where did the battle between the Monitor and Merrimac, (Virginia) take place”? The answer he wanted was “near Norfolk” because that is what the textbook said.
I had written “at Hampton Roads” and he marked it incorrect. I went to the library and got another book which gave the same answer as I gave. He refused to give me credit then after a few minutes just made up an excuse to give me a harsh paddling.
I was such an obedient student that I let him get away with it. Today I would have gone to the principal or if necessary the superintendent.
My dad was in Italy, 88th 351st Infantry. His CO, Captain Noon, was an excellent tactician. He would get them into position, figure enemy coordinates, fire; then he would get his men out before the Germans could figure out where they were firing from. Captain Noon didn’t lead from behind either; and was badly wounded on more than one occasion. A German officer shot him through the neck when he was already badly wounded and disabled. He was tough as nails, too, and survived anyway. They all were tough as nails.
Thanks. These pictures give a pretty good idea of just how damn cold it was. A good friend who was there still has trouble with his feet because they were frozen.
Great pictures. Thanks.
Remember back about about ten years-ago-or-so, when when all of the nancy-boys in the media were wringing their hands that our troops couldn’t handle the ‘brutal’ Afghanistan winters?
What a bunch of cry-babies. Of course, none of them, have ever served.
They’re aliens. They live in a parallel universe. They’re not of us. They’re Americans in name only.
Thank you for the post. My great-uncle, whom I never knew, was killed at the Battle of the Bulge at the age of 19. I look at pictures like this with great interest, always hoping that maybe there will be one of him.
I befriended a guy who came across the Channel at D-Day +21. He was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. He told me the story of lighting a fire inside a Deuce-and-a-half to get warm, and the fire got out of control and burned up the truck.
My father was in the 28th ID, 110th Rgt, 2nd Bn, E Co. The 28th held up the Germans long enough for the Airborne to get to Bastogne, but never got the headlines the paratroopers did. See “Alamo in the Ardennes” by John C. McManus for a good account of that fight, and why the sacrifices made by the 28th are largely forgotten while the defense of Bastogne is the stuff of legend.
He told me that prior to the attack, they reported sounds and signs of a German build up, and division G-2 sent a clean young officer with shined boots and a tie to check it out. They took the Intel guy across a river in a small boat, and when the got to the other side he said he’d seen enough, it was time to go back.
My father, and enlisted man, informed him that the Germans were still quite some distance ahead, and to his disgust he was told that they were not going any further. The officer reported that the men on the line were jumpy, and the were just imagining things.
A few days later his overstretched Regiment was wiped out by the German forces that didn’t exist.
That’s the sort of story the Army wasn’t interested in telling after the battle. It was better all around if they just focused on the heroic defense of Bastogne by the 101st.
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My father was there. Thank you.
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You, too? Every time I see a picture from the Bulge, or clips on TV, I hope I catch a glimpse of my father.
God bless and keep your great-uncle.
Since it is a pretty good, and pretty well liked movie, it would be easier for you just to spit out what you think makes it the worst war movie in history.
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Plus a thousand fighter planes.
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