re: #257 albusteve

Hitler simply underestimated the American will to fight to the death…the road to Bastogne was a brilliant and heroic blocking strategy, littered with GI bodies…that was the real fight, and when the Germans wiped out unit after unit…he was outa gas

I just read a good book “Alamo in the Ardennes on the delaying action fought by the 28th ID and elements of the 9th & 10th AD. Their sacrifices allowed the 101 enough time to get to Bastogne for the siege.

The 28th, especially, was slaughtered but kept fighting till they had nothing left.