While The Battle of the Bulge is extensively written about in histories of the Second World War, this book focuses on a critical but seldom explored aspect of the conflict: the five-day critical battle for the North shoulder of the Bulge at ...
In the first of two volumes on the Ardennes campaign Steven Zaloga details the fighting in the northern sector around St Vith and the Elsenborn Ridge.
Telling the harrowing stories of noncombatants caught up in the maelstrom of war, The Unknown Dead surveys this crucial battle and its consequences from an entirely new perspective.
At the same time, the 400yd range position was eliminated to simplify the sight since it was recognized that the bazooka was seldom accurate at that range. The successful use of the bazooka in combat usually required a heroic gunner.
In his riveting new book, Steven Zaloga describes how American foot soldiers faced down Hitler’s elite armored spearhead—the Hitler Youth Panzer Division—in the snowy Ardennes forest during one of World War II’s biggest battles, the ...
Thompson, Royce (1952b) Tank Fight of RocherathKrinkelt (Belgium) 17–19 December 1944. Office of the Chief of Military History. Walters, William (2007). Introduction to Shaped Charges. US Army Research Lab. Walters, William (2008).
... KrinkeltRocherath, approaching the twin villages from the south-west. 9 13 4 14 Then: After the 12. SS-Panzer-Division had been halted in and. FRANCE BELGIUM GERMANY LUXEMBOURG 11 141. Krinkelt-Rocherath. Krinkelt-Rocherath.
143 Senonchamps 232 Shea Patrick E. Pvt. 197 Shields John C. Cpl. 187 Shoup ... Thorn Horace M. Cpl. 245 Tillet 234,235,244 Timberlake Edward W. Brig. Gen.
... Rocherath to the vicinity of the church, while he himself was hidden in an hole on the north-south street through Rocherath. He also saw 27 U.S. prisoners march towards the church.” As the evening wore ... Krinkelt-Rocherath, 17 December 349.
This study picks up where D-Day leaves off. From Normandy through the breakout in France to the German Army's last gasp in the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Doubler deals...