The winners of this battle were confused by a wide attempt to drop troops near the Baraque Michel crossroads, which only landed three hundred people.
The winners of this battle were confused by a wide attempt to drop troops near the Baraque Michel crossroads, which only landed three hundred people. Strategic locales during this battle included Losheim Gap. It included a plan to disguise some of the eventual losers' tanks and give the opposite side false orders, called Operation Greif. This battle's losers tried reaching the Meuse River in overcast conditions. Fighting at Elsenborn Ridge, St. Vith, and Bastogne, as well as a POW massacre at Malmedy, occurred at this battle in which Gerd von Runstedt's surrender request got Anthony McAuliffe's one-word reply of "Nuts!" Operation Watch on the Rhine was the German codename of, for 10 points, which battle in the Ardennes in December 1944, the last Western offensive in which the Nazis pushed outwards?
The winners of this battle were confused by a wide attempt to drop troops near the Baraque Michel crossroads, which only landed three hundred people.
Battle of the Bulge [accept Operation Watch on the Rhine or Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein until "Watch" is read; prompt "Ardennes-Alsace Campaign" or "Ardennes Offensive" before "Ardennes" is read; prompt "von Runstedt Offensive" before "von" is read]