We lost 33,000 in the Hurtgen Forest.
Hodges and his officers are responsible for the inexcusable slaughter of their American soldiers in the Hurtgen Forest. They failed to require the officers to take proper care of their enlisted men and their needs (footcare, warming tents, food). They repeatedly advanced directly into a German ambush that was entirely unnecessary when they should have flanked the German forces with only token forces. Hodges and many of his subordinate officers ought to have been fired for their incompetence in the Hurtgen Forest well before the Ardennes fiasco.