Battle of the Bulge
World War II battle, 1944–1945
Summary
The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive and referred to by the Germans as Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War, taking place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg and was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy each of the four Allied armies and force the western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor.
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6/18/2002, 1:40:47 PM
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Recent revisions
/* Media attention */ typo, per req
/* Initial German assault */ Fix
/* Initial German assault */ 17 Dec 1944 Colone Joachim Peiper seizes 50,000 gallons of US fuel, a major war prize.
link (of a story during the Battle of the Bulge)
/* Allied counter-offensive */
/* Drafting the offensive */ Copyedit (minor)
/* German plans */ Copyedit (minor)
/* German plans */ Copyedit (minor)
/* top */
/* top */ see [[Template:Infobox military conflict]] here for permitted terms
"march"? Really?
/* Force comparisons by date */
/* Allied counter-offensive */
/* Allied counter-offensive */
/* Allied counterstrikes */ Clearly not a photo of actual combat (men standing isolated without any cover, others scattered in an open field).
Reverted map scaling to 1.00 from 1.35. Expanded map creates spacing issues above on multiple platforms.
