Bitche, France 1945

After fighting its way up the Rhone Valley,
the 100th Div. had liberated Bitche, beginning
in Dec, 1944, from the Germans. The next day,
these two modest, soft-spoken vets took the 100th Div.
around Bitche, describing events that had
occurred from 1-7 Jan. 1945 during the last
desperate German offensive of the war,
Operation Nordwind. Three German divisions,
led by the 17th Panzer Grenadiers, sought to
encircle the 100th.

The Germans where counterattacking, and his
alarming successes began to fill the news broadcasts.
Following the truths came the fiction and with the
fiction came the alarm. Powerful tank thrusts, air
invasions, heavy artillery.

Those first days in the Bitche area were for many
the worst of the war. The fact that the Germans were
really on the offensive was fully substantiated.
Snow lay deep on the hard frozen ground, and the ominous,
non-directional sounds of armor echoed through the splintered
woods and hollows.
Dawn found the situation critical in many sectors. 

After three days of fierce fighting, the Germans were
finally repulsed and driven north of Bitche.

Objective:
Capture all four control points to win.

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