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When Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's advanced forces reached Celles they were jumped by First Army tanks, artillery and infantry, aided by U.S. and British planes. The enemy lost 63 tanks, 49 guns, 177 vehicles, 1,200 prisoners, uncounted dead. Then, in a wild two-day battle the German remnants were driven back to Rochefort...
Rocks in the Stream. The German drive had already been slowed down by the heroic stand of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne (see below), which confined Rundstedt's columns to secondary roads north and south of the town. The 82nd Airborne had put up a fierce defense around Stavelot, the 7th Armored between Saint-Vith and Vielsalm, the 1st Infantry at the north shoulder of the salient below Monschau, and the 4th Infantry at the south shoulder, around Echternach. The two infantry outfits had prevented Rundstedt from widening the salient's base. They were pegs that...
...Rundstedt's all-out gamble involved the U.S. forces in their gravest and costliest battle of World War II. That savage outpouring of German strength showed clearly enough that the Man of 1944 was not to be found among the idealistic dreamers and crafty politicians who wanted to perform a Caesarean operation on a world at war, to bring the postwar world to birth ahead of its time. Not in three years of war had there been so much mutual recrimination among Russia, Britain and the U.S., nor such alarming cracks in their solidarity. In these cracks lurked...
...breakout came and the Germans were routed, it was in the bag. When the Allies pulled up in September, back came the gloom. When Generals Bradley and Devers resumed the offensive in November, there were Congressmen in Washington who said it might all be over in 30 days. Rundstedt's amazing winter offensive brought the thickest gloom of the year...
...spite of Gerd von Rundstedt's dashing drive against the U.S. armies, Germans at home had their own summary of the Christmas situation...