12/25/22 SSN A Salute To The Veterans of The Greatest Generation: Christmas Tribute

American Boys Became Men!

**The Battle of Bicthe & Ardennes Offensive known as the Battle of The Bulge.
*An overview of the contributions and sacrifices of this group of 13,000+ soldiers who boarded 7 ships in NYC and sailed to Marseilles, France in Oct.1944. they advanced up the Rhone valley and pushed the enemy back across the Voges mountains. In Dec. Jan. They broke through the the legendary Maginot Line for the first time in history, then liberated the strategic town of Bitche, France.
*It’s written in history how the confident Germans had expected to surround and annihilate the 100th in two days, the division’s stubborn defense disrupted the Germans’ efforts to regain the Saverne Pass. For four days, elements of the 398th Infantry Regiment of the 100th Division then assaulted Fort Schiesseck, a major Maginot Line defensive work––a 14-story-deep fortress, complete with disappearing gun turrets and 12-foot-thick, steel-reinforced concrete walls. The fort’s German defenders would hold out until December 20.
Thanks to their hearty offense and stout defense, the men of the 100th would later become known as the “Sons of Bitche.” The fierceness of the combat was a precursor of things to come
**Ardennes Offensive known as the Battle of The Bulge.
*Nuts
*Bastogne did not fall
*Determination
*Germans were taking No prisoners No Surrender, just Offering Death

**Battle of Nordwind
*The Operation Nordwind plan called for Lt. Gen. Hans von Obstfelder’s German First Army to attack southward from the West Wall and into France, through Bitche, the Saverne Gap, and the Wissembourg Gap, Between the Low and High Vosges Mountains of Alsace-Lorraine, and link up with another thrust northward by Nineteenth Army.
*One of the Germans’ major objectives was taking the Saverne Gap, 20 miles northwest of Strasbourg; it is a narrow, gorge-like passage less than 100 yards wide in places that cuts through the Vosges from Arzviller to Saverne. Adding to the difficulty of fighting in this area was a string of Maginot Line forts that the Germans had captured earlier in the war. The two armies, it was envisioned, would meet east of the Saverne Gap, recapture the city of Strasbourg, and trap the U.S. Seventh Army in northern Alsace.
With elements of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.’s Third Army out of the line, Gen. Patch was suddenly faced with stretching his forces almost to the breaking point. Like someone trying to spread a single pat of butter to cover an entire loaf of bread, Patch’s six infantry divisions had to cover a front of 126 miles. As the Army’s official history of the campaign states, “This worked out to about twenty miles of front per division, six miles per regiment, or two per battalion––with the two armored divisions [the French 2nd and Maj. Gen. Roderick R. Allen’s untested U.S. 12th] in reserve.”
Gen. Patch directed Haislip’s XV Corps––made up of the U.S. 44th, 100th, and 103rd Infantry Divisions—to cover 35 miles of front to the west of the Vosges Mountains…
*it turned out to be quite the heroic fete by the U.S. and French forces and as the member of the 100 infantry stated what they had done had forced the Germans to change their plans and attack in other areas.
**After repelling the German offensive the job was not done, a path to Rhine River and Berlin would be only way to end the war and Heilbronn needed to be taken.
* the brave men of the 100th and the 398th pushed into Germany and won a brutal 8 day battle in Heilbronn just one month before victory in Europe.
*another point here is how the media had announced victory prematurely
*with the final point being and what we exposed in a previous show was how the upper ranks of the German Government, Military, and other members of the Third Reich like scientists from medical to aerodynamic, right to nuclear were already negotiating their escape, while the soldiers were fighting to the death for their homeland.
*Why else would the German be so concerned about preserving their 1936 Olympic Stadium?

**Some food for thought, maybe they figured they would flee and return someday in the future to admire their heritage?
**Sound like a Conspiracy Theory, if you haven’t researched Operation Paperclip that is a matter of Historic record and look around today, and ask yourself what is currently taking place is it what these brave men in WW II Sacrificed and so many died for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQYq1fNuwPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGeW_LkF1xQ
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/operation-nordwind-the-other-battle-of-the-bulge/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRu1Wvtu40Y&list=PLDRje5Z2g6z4tOcjKyz_jZXjmlKzgF8zj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usTmPkvqPDk&t=567s

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