 Forward Artillery Observers from Battery C, 371st Field Artillery, held off an entire German battalion of over 500 men during a 10-hour-long fight, inflicting 92 casualties on the Germans.The platoon seriously disrupted the entire Sixth Panzer Army's schedule of attack along the northern edge of the offensive.At dusk on 16 December, about 50 German paratroopers finally flanked the platoon and captured the remaining 15 soldiers.