12-17-2011, 07:17 PM
the Battle of the Bulge, 67 years ago.
i had to do a report on this decisive battle while in high school. i wish i had these photos then.
Breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offer a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter.
They show soldiers on both sides battling the frigid weather as they fought each other during Nazi Germany's last-ditch effort to drive back Allied forces between December 1944 and January 1945.
The pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67th anniversary of the start of the grueling battle.At the end of the of the 41-day offensive, 19,000 American soldiers were dead. The British Army lost 1,400 lives. Total allied casualties are estimated at 110,000 - making it the bloodiest battle for American troops in all of World War II.
Under-manned and not prepared to camp out in temperatures that dropped to four degrees below zero Fahrenheit, American forces held out against German tanks and troops until reinforcements, including General George S. Patton's Third Army.
![[Image: article-0-0F3546E200000578-263_964x641.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/17/article-0-0F3546E200000578-263_964x641.jpg)
![[Image: article-0-0F35408E00000578-763_964x723.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/17/article-0-0F35408E00000578-763_964x723.jpg)
![[Image: article-2075565-0F353E6F00000578-748_964x649.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/17/article-2075565-0F353E6F00000578-748_964x649.jpg)
![[Image: article-2075565-0F3537B100000578-813_964x718.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/17/article-2075565-0F3537B100000578-813_964x718.jpg)
1945 Belgium
![[Image: article-2075565-0F353B5500000578-839_964x823.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/17/article-2075565-0F353B5500000578-839_964x823.jpg)
15-year-old German soldier
![[Image: article-2075565-0F35401200000578-582_964x627.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/17/article-2075565-0F35401200000578-582_964x627.jpg)
nazi POWs
![[Image: article-2075565-0F35409600000578-560_964x998.jpg]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/17/article-2075565-0F35409600000578-560_964x998.jpg)
i had to do a report on this decisive battle while in high school. i wish i had these photos then.
Breathtaking new photographs, including several vivid full-color images, offer a never-before-seen look at the war-weary soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge who fought through the frozen Ardennes Forest in a mountainous region of Belgium in the dead of winter.
They show soldiers on both sides battling the frigid weather as they fought each other during Nazi Germany's last-ditch effort to drive back Allied forces between December 1944 and January 1945.
The pictures were released by Life Magazine on the 67th anniversary of the start of the grueling battle.At the end of the of the 41-day offensive, 19,000 American soldiers were dead. The British Army lost 1,400 lives. Total allied casualties are estimated at 110,000 - making it the bloodiest battle for American troops in all of World War II.
Under-manned and not prepared to camp out in temperatures that dropped to four degrees below zero Fahrenheit, American forces held out against German tanks and troops until reinforcements, including General George S. Patton's Third Army.
1945 Belgium
15-year-old German soldier
nazi POWs