Thanks. The 101st didn’t have any tanks so those tanks must have been attached.
RM’s post says they had tanks from the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions. If memory serves, some high commander had pulled tanks out of Bastogne before the German offensive started.
Patton had probably the best G-2 guy, and he looked at the field intel and said, they’re getting staged for attack, not defense, too much getting accumulated. Everyone higher than Patton along with his peers didn’t see it.
Bradley even states in “A Soldier’s Story” that it didn’t look like anything, then said he still thought it was the right call. :^)