Battle of Bulge

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Article abstract: Type of action: German counteroffensive in World War II. Result: Successful U.S. and British defense of Allied lines.

At dawn on December 16, 1944, twenty-five German divisions, secretly assembled by Adolf Hitler, attacked six divisions of the U.S. First Army along a seventy-mile front in the heavily wooded Ardennes forest. Hitler’s goal was to penetrate U.S. lines and capture Antwerp, thereby seizing a major Allied port and isolating four Allied armies north of the breakthrough. Taking advantage of the element of surprise and a lingering...

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