A little know fact is that more US troops went down during the Battle at Ardennes than during D-Day. We lost over 75,000 killed or wounded at the Bulge and the Germans lost 120,000 killed or wounded. Talk about bloody.
Winning this battle was the beginning of the end for hitler and his thugs.
The sad thing is, we let the soviets split Berlin and that caused the cold war.
If Patton had been listened to, we'd have kicked the reds out of Berlin and Germany never would have been split in two parts.
At that point, everyone was sick of fighting.