The Battle Of The Bulge (Dec 1944)

The Battle of the Bulge (Dec 1944 – Jan1945) The Battle of the Bulge took place through the dense forest of region Ardennes of the Wallonia In Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the western front. The principle adversary during this battle was the Germans and there conflict with the Americans, British and the Soviets. This battle was the last major German offensive campaign. During WWII (16 Dec 1944- 25 January 1945) Adolf Hitler declared to push for an all-out counterattack code named Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine). With a huge imbalance of forces in the west 55 German divisions to confront 96 Allied divisions with a few more coming in as support from England, Hitler believed a lack of supplies (mainly fuel) and the absent of functioning deep water ports had destabilized the allied situation, and with a surprise attack his hopes of breaking the relations between the Americans and the British would force the Western allies to crumble. (Watch the Rhein) initial plan was made up of three great armies, two of them being made up of panzers. These armies would be launched from the Ardennes Forest near the Start point on invasion of France in 1940, the plans specialty had built-in the ultimate deception (Operation Griffin) of having German Soldiers …show more content…
The Germans initial movement started with Sixth SS Panzer Army who main objective was to attack alongside a path known as the Northern Shoulder, this Division is commanded by one of Hitler’s preferred Commanders SS GEN. Josef Dietrich a very veteran armor officer. The Sixth Panzer engaged along five preplanned paths with an additional units from one parachute division and four infantry divisions. Dietrich advance was minor successful taking hold of important crossing points up until the point where the weather cleared and Airpower could be brought in and use to destroy majority of the