Danny Eberhardt
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Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
The Battle of the Bulge was the bloodiest engagement that American troops fought in Europe in the whole of the Second World War. Winston Churchill called it their greatest battle of the conflict. Some 19,000 US soldiers were killed in the midwinter fighting. A few that survived are still alive.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
Some were there today at a moving ceremony in Bastogne, the Belgian town the Americans famously defended against besieging Nazi forces. One had this message recorded in a video montage.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
The counter-offensive that Adolf Hitler launched in late 1944 had caught the Allies off guard. The Nazis pushed westward through the dense forests of the Ardennes and past Allied lines, forming the bulge the battle is named after. But dogged American resistance, reinforcements and, as the weather improved, superior Allied air power forced the Germans back. Hitler's gamble had failed.
Global News Podcast
South Korea's president impeached
His troops hadn't even got as far as Brussels, let alone the crucial port of Antwerp. The five-week campaign was over by late January. Just over three months later, Germany's dictator killed himself, with the war in Europe ending soon after.