16 December 2008

OSINT: HISTORY; December 16, The day the Battle of the Bulge began

It began at dawn on Dec. 16, 1944,
64 years ago today, with rapid assaults through the Ardennes forest, as the Germans blitzed one last time, hoping to split the Allied armies and take Antwerp. As Guderian reportedly liked to say, “Man schlägt jemanden mit der Faust und nicht mit gespreizten Fingern.” You punch with the fist and not with the fingers spread.

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