On December 26, General George S. Patton employs an audacious strategy to relieve the besieged Allied defenders of Bastogne, Belgium, during the brutal Battle of the Bulge.
The capture of Bastogne was the ultimate goal of the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive through the Ardennes forest. Bastogne provided a road junction in rough terrain where few roads existed; it would open up a valuable pathway further north for German expansion. The Belgian town was defended by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, which had to be reinforced by troops who straggled in from other battlefields.
Food, medical supplies, and other resources eroded as bad weather and relentless German assaults threatened the Americans’ ability to hold out. Nevertheless, Brigadier General Anthony C. MacAuliffe met a German surrender demand with a typewritten response of a single word: “Nuts.”
Enter “Old Blood and Guts,” General Patton. Employing a complex and quick-witted strategy wherein he literally wheeled his 3rd Army a sharp 90 degrees in a counterthrust movement, Patton broke through the German lines and entered Bastogne, relieving the valiant defenders and ultimately pushing the Germans east across the Rhine.
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Patton would have been utterly destroyed if the Russian Red Army, helped by Hitler’s stupidity, had not destroyed the 500K strong German 6th army and 4th Panzer Army at Stalingrad. Of course, shortly thereafter the loss at the Battle of Kursk put the Germans in full retreat and Russian on an invasion course towards the German heartland.
America was a big supporter of Germany’s Hitler and Nazism hence the late entry in 1941 to join the British and Canadians to stop Russia from taking control of all of Europe. Senator Prescott Bush, GW Bush’s granddaddy, along with other Wall Street financiers and politicos were the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz.
Of course, all this is scrubbed form history and rewritten to make America look like a moral crusader…again!
Although you’re right on most of your post, I think you would have been wrong on Patton. The man was a vet of two foreign wars (oddly he fought in the Ardennes in WW1 (check info at the Romagnes sous Montfaucon web page). You have also to know that the Bushes were not the only one who supported the nazis in the beginning, most soviet agents in FDR’s office were also until June 21st 1941 of course (See Operation Barbarossa)(there are some good info on conservapedia.com about the infiltration of soviet agents in the White House since 1918). After that date huge amounts of war material was sent to Stalin. If Patton had his was, those envoys of good would have been stopped. And another think to remember, Patton was a marginal, whereas the crackpots soviet general where to afraid to contradict Stalin who was making (just like Hitler) all the decisions (good or bad) than blame the generals in case of failure.
That was an America that worked. An America that was moral, strong and accomplished. It was a white America-like it or not.
LOL! More brainwashed than a North Korean!
Fact!
I didn’t start thinking of myself as a white man until THEY tried to make me ashamed of it. How about you?
Fuck you……the men who fought in this battle came home and voted for LBJ and Ted Kennedy.
On December 23, 1944, in small Belgian village called Bastogne, the 101st Airborne was in a very bad situation. Surrounded by the German Army, with bad weather preventing supply drops by the Air Corps, and their perimeter shrinking by the hour, it would seem all hope was lost. But a small band of misfits were riding to their rescue. Led by Jake McNeice, the nucleus of the group were surviving members of McNeice’s notorious band of troublemakers dubbed the “Filthy Thirteen”. MacNeice had just been busted down to Private First Class after overstaying a three-day pass
(I wonder what her name was? lol). When he learned he was being sent back to England, McNeice remarked sarcastically “Oh, is England where they are going to hang me?”. But any hanging would have to wait, McNeice was briefed on what would be one of the most delicate and dangerous missions of the war, and the trip to England was to begin training the group for this mission (when all hell is breaking loose, you don’t call on a bureaucrat. You need a man who is willing to break some rules). McNeice put together a group of 20 Pathfinders to parachute into the besieged village of Bastogne. There was no shortage of volunteers despite the danger. McNeice’s reputation preceded him, and men who had served with him quickly signed on. The Pathfinders mission was to jump with AN/PPN-1A Eureka beacons. These beacons would broadcast a signal picked up by APN-2(SCR-729) Rebecca receivers on board C-47 supply planes.
On December 22, 1944 McNeice’s motley band took off for Bastogne. This was the same day the Germans offered to accept a surrender from the 101st. The commander, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe relied “Nuts” (or some variation thereof). But weather conditions, hasty planning, and navigation issues caused the jump on the 22nd to be aborted.
On December 23nd, they took off again, and this time there was no turning back. By stroke of luck, McNeice’s plane was piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Joel Crouch. Crouch had flown the Pathfinders in training, and he was a skilled pilot who could jockey the cumbersome, unarmed C-47 around like a fighter plane. As they approached Bastogne, Crouch turned on the red light, and the Pathfinders hooked their static lines. The sky was illuminated by anti-aircraft flak, when suddenly a German 88 blew a hole in the fuselage right between McNeice and another Pathfinder, missing them by inches. Crouch took evasive action and buzzed the German ground forces at treetop level, causing them to scatter. Upon reaching jump altitude again, McNeice spotted a large cemetery and concluded this must be Bastogne. The green light went on and they jumped into the clouds & fog enshrouding the village. On the ground, they deployed orange smoke signaling the second pathfinder plane to jump. When the pathfinders hit the ground in Bastogne, 40 C-47’s loaded with supplies were already somewhere over France. Upon hearing their motors their motors approaching the Pathfinders activated their Eureka beacons to guide them in through the weather. At 11:50 AM on December 23rd, like an early Christmas Present, parachute supply drops filled the sky. In about four hours, 144 tons of supplies were dropped on Bastogne. The 241 planes guided in by heroic men who probably couldn’t meet rigid army recruiting standards today.
https://www.stripes.com/news/filthy-thirteen-veterans-recount-their-antics-during-wwii-1.85075