Incredible colourised WW2 images reveal brave soldiers’ hell during brutal Battle of the Bulge

The Sun (UK) ^ | 15th December 2018 | Aletha Adu

[Leaning Right]

THESE incredible colourised World War Two photographs reveal the brutal hell soldiers endured during the Battle of Bulge.

This war was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the war.

[kiryandil]

I'd love to have the book The Damned Engineers by Janice Holt Giles, but it's $50.00 or more, if you can get hold of it.

I read it several times in my youth.

[Neidermeyer]

My father was also 84th Railsplitters,, took a machinegun burst to both legs and gut... medics refused to give him morphine because they considered him already dead and they didn’t have any extra... on the 3rd day he was still alive and they got him out.. that was his 3rd purple heart,, first 2 were both grenade fragments clearing houses in various towns on the way north...

[jmacusa]

The 291st. was an illustrious unit. I read their story years ago, can't remember the name of the book although I believe it was written by Colonel Pergrin himself. He was an exceptional officer who cross trained his men. He wanted to make sure that every man in his outfit knew how to do every job possible in case another man became a casualty and couldn't preform his duty.

[jmacusa]

God bless him. The 84th. saw a lot of action. It’s commanding officer General Bolling had a son in the unit, a lieutenant who was captured at one point but managed to escape back to American lines. My uncle served in the 335th. Regiment of the 84th., I Company.

[FLT-bird]

One of my 2nd or 3rd cousins was killed in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a cook. When they got hard pressed - and didn’t have any more hot food anyway - the order was that they were now all infantrymen. They were grabbing rear echelon guys, the walking wounded and any others they could get hold of and throwing them in the battle to halt the breakthrough.

[cowboyusa]

My Granfather fought in it,and was wounded.