The Battle of the Bulge was Germany's last great push for victory in WWII.
The allies were advancing across Belgium and the German's made their final great counter-offensive against the US sector where there became a bulge in the Allied lines as the Germans pushed forward and the Americans fell back.
It was the largest and bloodiest infantry battle in American history with 600,000 US troops involved, more than in the Battle of Gettysburg, both sides put together.
It was late 1944, Stalin's Red Army was pushing through Poland towards Germany and the Germans hadn't enough troops available. So they decided to use all the men who had a sick note, but were not too seriously ill, for example all those with a tummy bug. So all those with stomach ailments were drafted into a Division of the 70th Infantry Vermacht, called The Stomach Division. They displayed outstanding guts and were given their own latrines and special diet,
They never got involved in the front line of the battle itself, but were mopped up later by the Canadians.
The allies were advancing across Belgium and the German's made their final great counter-offensive against the US sector where there became a bulge in the Allied lines as the Germans pushed forward and the Americans fell back.
It was the largest and bloodiest infantry battle in American history with 600,000 US troops involved, more than in the Battle of Gettysburg, both sides put together.
It was late 1944, Stalin's Red Army was pushing through Poland towards Germany and the Germans hadn't enough troops available. So they decided to use all the men who had a sick note, but were not too seriously ill, for example all those with a tummy bug. So all those with stomach ailments were drafted into a Division of the 70th Infantry Vermacht, called The Stomach Division. They displayed outstanding guts and were given their own latrines and special diet,
They never got involved in the front line of the battle itself, but were mopped up later by the Canadians.
