For the entire month of November 1944 a number of US Army divisions were getting slaughtered in The Hurtgen Forest. It’s a sad story of how pig headed American generals threw men’s lives away recklessly for no good reason.
I’m not convinced that Omar Bradley’s photo shouldn’t accompany the dictionary definition for The Peter Principle; but US forces had up to 5 to 1 advantage in the Hurtgen. The Germans were remarkably skilled and experienced, and they also had the terrain going for them, as they had had in Italy. At least Marshall and FDR finally said enough in Italy, after the important objectives (the airfields in southern Italy, which were in range of the bombers used to attack German assets in Romania and elsewhere) were met. The UK wanted to keep going, pretty much anything to avoid D-Day.
http://taskandpurpose.com/hurtgen-forest-americas-longest-costly-battle-world-war-ii/
http://www.historynet.com/the-hurtgen-forest-1944-the-worst-place-of-any.htm