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The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. [16] It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg.
The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge, United States Army in World War II, p 188. One of the American tanks, now in front of the castle At 09:30 on 17 December, the 2nd Panzer Division attacked Clervaux, with six German Stug IIIs from a Panzerjäger company and Panzergrenadiers in thirty armored vehicles advancing from the south.
The tank killers: a history of America's World War II tank destroyer force. Casemate. ISBN 978-1-932033-80-9. Cole, Hugh M. (1964). The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge. Office of the Chief of Military History Department of the Army. LCCN 65060001. Archived from the original on 13 November 2008
The Ardennes became the site of three major battles during the world wars—the Battle of the Ardennes (August 1914) in World War I, and the Battle of France (1940) and the Battle of the Bulge (1944–1945) in World War II. Many of the towns of the region suffered severe damage during the two world wars.
737th Tank Battalion 654th Tank Destroyer Battalion (22–25 December) 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion (from 25 December) 807th Tank Destroyer Battalion (17–21 December) 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion (13 July – 20 December) 449th AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion. 10th Armored ("Tiger") Division Major General William H. H. Morris Jr.
The Battle of Sedan or Second Battle of Sedan (12–15 May 1940) [10] [13] [14] took place in World War II during the Battle of France in 1940. It was part of the German Wehrmacht ' s operational plan codenamed Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) for an offensive through the hilly and forested Ardennes, to encircle the Allied armies in Belgium and north-eastern France.
The (anti-aircraft batteries) would engage the German tanks at maximum range, slow the German tanks, and thus give the more mobile tank and tank destroyer units time to move to the point of the German attack and defeat the enemy's armor. Time and again, this technique was used to counter uncoordinated enemy thrusts that came from all directions.
It was the German paratroopers' only nighttime drop during World War II. The pilots dropped some behind the German front lines, others over Bonn, and only a few hundred behind the American lines, in widely scattered locations. Some aircraft landed with their troops still on board. Only a fraction of the force landed near the intended drop zone.