Battles and Campaigns / Western Front / Battle of the Bulge Then and Now

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PART I 'WACHT AM RHEIN'

The Decision to Regain the Initiative

Operational Planning

Condition of the Attack Force

Orders for Deception and Secrecy

Orders for the Attack

'Wacht am Rhein': Order of Battle

Build-up

Special Operations

The Panzer Spearheads

The Failure of Allied Intelligence

Hitler's Final Comments at FHQu 'Adlerhorst'
 

PART 2 BREAKTHROUGH

6. PANZER-ARMEE

LXVII. Armeekorps stopped on the northern flank

Operation 'Stosser'

1. SS-Panzerkorps: Elsenborn Ridge

Rollbahn C: 12. SS-Panzer-Division

Operation 'Greif'

1. SS-Panzerkorps: Kampfgruppe Peiper

5. PANZER-ARMEE

LXVI. Armeekorps: the Schnee Eifel and Saint-Vith

LVIII. Panzerkorps reaches Hotton

XXXXVII. Panzerkorps advances west of Bastogne

7. ARMEE

LXXXV. Armeekorps crosses the Our

LXXX. Armeekorps battles west of the Sûre
 

PART 3 HIGH TIDE

6. PANZER-ARMEE

Evacuation of the Saint-Vith salient

1. SS-Panzerkorps: the end of Kampfgruppe Peiper

11. SS-Panzerkorps checked at Manhay

5. PANZER-ARMEE

LVIII. Panzerkorps fails east of Marche

Nuts! XXXXVII. Panzerkorps at Bastogne

XXXXVII. Panzerkorps glimpses the Meuse

7. ARMEE

The US Third Army counter-attack

US 111 Corps

US Xll Corps
 

PART 4 THE BEGINNING OF THE END

'We shall yet master fate'

Allied counter-plans

6. PANZER-ARMEE

11. SS-Panzerkorpst attempt to break through at Erezee

5. PANZER-ARMEE

Fight to cut the Bastogne Corridor

Third Army's attack develops

7. ARMEE
 

PART 5 ESCAPE FROM THE SALIENT

Heeresgruppe G and Operation 'Nordwind'

New Year's Day - Operation 'Bodenplatte'

Bastogne: Epilogue to Failure

The pressure mounts: The First Army counter-attacks

The threat from the Third Army along the Our

Finis

The Cost
 

PART 6 THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY

The Memorials

The Museums

COMPARATIVE RANK TABLE

THE AWARDS: Ritterkreuz, Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross

MILITARY UNIT SIGNS

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