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The american and allied troops got to normandy beach at 2 o’clock in the morning. At 3 o’clock in the morning the fighting started. The allies had aerial bombardment as backup. It was so bad that their was 209 thousand allies and 216 thousand germans that died on D-Day when the invasion was over.

The Germans defeated the Polish and almost all of Western Europe. Although the British had no help when it came to Hitler and his army, the remains of Europe had been overturned already. The Battle of the Bulge also called Battle of the Ardennes as well, which began Dec. 16, 1944 and ended Jan. 16, 1945. This was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II. It was an unsuccessful attempt to push the Allies back from German home territory . Winston Churchill made a promise that he would fight as long as it would take to overcome Hitler. The name Battle of the Bulge was appropriated from Winston Churchill he referred to “the bulge” as the wedge that the Germans drove into the Allied lines.

With German forces on the run following the Allied success at Normandy and the breakout and pursuit across France, Allied forces were staged to enter Germany in late summer 1944. Both Field Marshal Montgomery and General Bradley clamored to be given the priority of effort. General Eisenhower chose Montgomery’s Operation MARKET GARDEN as the plan for action. It called for airborne forces to open the route for a ground force to move more than sixty miles up a single road, ending up north of the Rhine River near Arnhem, Netherlands. By accomplishing this task, the German Ruhr industrial heartland would be within easy grasp. But the operation failed. The ground force

The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched, in the dense forest of Ardennes Wallonia in eastern part of Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg. This battle was one of the largest fought by the United States Army, on the Western Front in Europe, during World War II. This fierce battle, was between the German Nazi’s, the American Army, Canadian Army, and the British Army, was one of Hitler’s last attempt to split the Allies driving them towards Germany and destroy their ability to supply themselves. Were the Germans able to stop the Americans and the British from getting their supplies? Was the weather a factor and if so, who did it assist in the battle? Was the American Army able to counter attack in a timely manner and stop the German Nazi’s invasion?

     The Battle of the bulge took place on December sixteenth 1944. More than a million men participated in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British which made it

This was to be a joint operation between British, French and American forces. Though it was not the actual boundaries, the Meuse River and the Argonne Forrest restricted much of the U.S. 1st Army’s maneuverability between them. This area was comprised of a very dense and thick vegetation with few roads for heavy equipment and supplies to flow forth once the offensive began; therefore this was to be used to the Allied Powers advantage. The Germans would be attacked all along the front from British, French, and American forces simultaneously.

In March 1918, with nearly 50 additional divisions freed by the Russian surrender on the Eastern Front, the German Army launched a series of attacks on the Western Front, hoping to defeat the Allies before U.S. forces could be fully deployed. In the north, the British 5th Army was virtually destroyed by two major offensive operations, Michael and Georgette around the Somme. A third offensive launched in May against the French between Soissons and Reims, known as the Third Battle of the Aisne, saw the Germans reach the north bank of the Marne river at Château-Thierry, 95 kilometres (59 mi) from Paris, on 27 May. Two U.S. Army divisions, the 2nd and the 3rd, were thrown into the Allied effort to stop the Germans. On 31 May, the 3rd Division

The post D-Day Allied assault that swept through France was halted by Hitler’s unexpected counter-attack through the Ardennes, resulting in a confrontation named the Battle of the Bulge.

Although US troops assumed mainly a support role in this action, the battle came to be known as the beginning of the end for Germany. 85,000 US troops participated, with 12,000 casualties, gaining the praise of not only their own officers, but the French and British commanders as well. "During this time a single regiment of the 3rd Division rewrote one of the most luminous pages in our military history, it prevented the crossing at certain points on its front, while on either flank the Germans who had gained a footing pressed

Hitler’s Watch on the Rheine offensive depended on his three armies, the Fifth Panzer Army in the north, the Sixth Panzer Army in the center and the 7th Army in the south. The German War Machine included 400,000 troops, 1,400 tanks, 2,600 artillery pieces and 1,000 aircraft in comparison to the thin American line consisting of four American Infantry Divisions and one Armored Division totally 83,000 men and 400 tanks (Farrell 37). Despite an overwhelming Wehrmacht (German Army) and their extensive knowledge of terrain and an elaborate plan to infiltrate Allied lines through the use of espionage,

The Germans had deployed the 352nd infantry division in a defensive doctrine on Omaha beach , Normandy. In hopes of

The Battle of the Bulge, the largest battle of the Western front ended when the Germans failed to capture the Allied stronghold of the Bastogne, Belgium. The goal of the mission was to sap the German's will to fight and to and to ensure that German troops could not move East to fight the Soviet Union. April 30, Hitler committed suicide and all the German forces surrendered on May 8, Known as Victory in Europe Day or V-E Day. In the Pacific, Japan did not capitulate when the Germans did. By late 1944, there was an Allied victory but with an invasion of Japan. In order to get them to surrender loomed. Japan was given orders to fight until death. It took a month for American forces to eliminate Japanese resistance. There were bombings of Japanese

At first, on August 23, 1944, Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower approved of Montgomery’s plans for a single thrust into Germany. For a time this gave Montgomery priority on supplies, especially gasoline. However on September 2, Eisenhower was convinced by Patton that his army could

Although the German resistance was stiff, the allied endeavored through the struggles and gained a precious stronghold in Western Europe, allowing the allies to push into Germany from the west. German casualties in D-Day were around 4,000 to 9,000, the allied on the other hand had at least 12,000 with a minimum of 4,000 confirmed dead. Despite their great losses on D-Day, the invasion allowed the allied forces to push towards Germany from the West. In less than a week later, over 326,000 allied troops along with over 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment reached Normandy. There, the allied used the coasts of Normandy as a foothold for their attacks in the mainland, and by the end of August 1944, the allied reached the Seine River

At that time, nearly 60,000 men that were made up of mostly American troops held their position in the Ardennes forest. The German objective was to break through the weakly held American position to cross over the River Meuse to secure the allied supply lines in Antwerp and hold a new German military line and fracture the alliance. The Germans needed bad weather to be successful and planned on that bad weather. Hitler used basic weather prediction technology (weather forecast information) created by German U boats in the Atlantic Ocean by using statistics, data, and weather conditions to set the date for the attack onto Western front in the Ardennes region. Hitler’s troop movements in the dense forest were undetected and were a major intelligence failure for the US.