Battle of the Bulge

Many people refer to the "Battle of Britain" when discussing the WWII air war over the English Channel. "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" Winston Spencer-Churchill

The "Third Army" usually denotes a field army. A number of countries have had a Third Army, including Germany. The German Third Army was disbanded in November 1939, only five weeks after the end of the Polish campaign, in which it took part.

Since you asked this in the "Battle of the Bulge" category I am guessing you are asking about the Third US Army. A field army, such as the 3rd, has in it two or more Corps. Each Corps has in it two or more divisions. After the landings at Normandy in France in 1944, the Allied field armies from north to south were the Canadian First Army, British Second Army (together these were the 21st Army Group), the 9th, 1st, and 3rd US Armies (together these three were the 12th Army Group) and the 7th US Army and the French 1st Army (together these were the 6th Army Group). The German attack in the Ardennes Offensive ("Battle of the Bulge") hit the Allied line at the boundary of the US 9th and 1st Armies.

The German attack broke through the Allied line. But the German plan was a desperate one, and for continued success depended on capturing enough Allied gasoline to keep the German tanks moving.

The Third US Army was south of this breakthrough, aimed generally eastward toward the German border. At this time the 3rd Army consisted of the US VIII, XII and XX Corps. The commanding general of the US 3rd Army was General George S. Patton, Jr. He may have been the best US field army commander of the war. The Germans thought so, anyway. Within a day or two Patton halted his attacks eastward, reoriented his army to face northward, and attacked into the soutern flank of the German penetration. The goal may have been to cut off the Germans who had broken through, or to at least restore the Allied line and push the Germans back out, while relieving isolated units which continued to hold out, though surrounded by the Germans.

The battle of Lexington was, of course, at Lexington. The battle of Concord was, (Do you know it?), at Concord!

Its success would have bought more time for Germany, but its failure resulted in a shorter war in Europe. Against the advice of his generals who preferred a smaller attack, Hitler pulled troops from the Eastern Front, raised new divisions, and threw away the last of his tanks in the Ardennes Offensive. It was more of a gamble than a calculated risk for Germany.

About 8 million.

Country Pop. Killed/Mising Wounded Total(Military) Civilian (deaths) Germany 78m 3.5 million 4.6 million 8.1 million 2million Italy 44m 330,000 ? 70,000 Japan 72m 1.75 million ? 350,000 Rumania 20m 500,000 300,000 800,000 400,000 Bulgaria 6m 10,000 ? 50,000 Hungary 10m 120,000 250,000 370,000 200,000 Finland 4m 100,000 45,000 145,000 4,000 Country Pop. Killed/Mising Wounded Total(Military) Civilian (deaths)

Source: world war 1 casualties (Google)

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"Force Z" was the British Battleship HMS Prince of Wales and Battlecruiser HMS Repulse sunk by Japanese ARMY twin engine bombers on 10 December 1941. The result of which, convinced Naval Officers world wide, that the Battleship no longer ruled the seas; AIRCRAFT now ruled the seas, via the Aircraft Carrier.

The battle took place in Ardennes Mountains region in Belgium, elsewhere in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.

*The 'Bulge' was the general region of the Ardennes Forrest in Belgium, primarily around the town of Bastogne as in order to control the region and the local supply routes, one must have control of Bastogne (all 8 routes in the region came together in this town).

The chronological order of these battles are: 1) The Battle of Britain, 2)Stalingrad, 3)D-Day' and 4) the Battle of the Bulge.

The list is not going to be posted anywhere on the web. Over 19,000 Americans and over 90,000 Germans were killed. There were over 840,000 Americans engaged in the battle.

There were two battles involved, one on September 17th the other on October 9th. The Colonists won both of the Battles and had surrounded General Burgoyne with a superior force. This factor had a lot to do with bringing France into the conflict.

Overwhelming forces and the lack of proper supplies, gas being one for Germans. The Germans were also hampered by the fact to succeed they had to cross a number of rivers which the Allies systematically destroyed before the Germans could cross them

According to the Australian Department of Veteran Affairs 2010 annual report there were estimated to be 90,900 surviving Australian world world 2 veterans as of June 2010.

19,000 soldiers died after battle of the bulge

No country likes to be invaded & occupied by a foreign power. The German Gauleiter (Reichs Kommisar) of the Netherlands was Arthur Seyss-Inquart. He was executed for crimes against humanity after the end of WW2. The actions of the Germans as an occupying power did not endear them to anyone, and that is putting it at it's mildest. The German army caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Dutch people, using them as forced labour and confiscated their belongings.

There were three locations for the Battle of the Bulge. These locations included forest areas of Wallonia, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. Most of the battle action took place in Ardennes forest.

It mark the beginning of the end of the Europe campaign during WW2. As The Nazi fail to achieve their objective on ending the war in the west at the cost of the very last of their reserve.

The Battle of Yorktown was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. It was basically because British General Cornwallis, believed that in order to have control over the Carolina's, he would have to take control of Virginia.

Cornwallis eventually settled his troops within the region of the Chesapeake Bay. General George Washington, ordered that Cornwallis and his troops be blockaded. From this, Cornwallis and his troops were trapped.

On October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrendered his army of about 7,000 soldiers. The British band piped a tune called "The World Turned Upside Down." The fighting was over.

The Pine Ridge Campaign (November 1890 -- January 1891) led to the last major conflict with the Sioux which resulted in the Wounded Knee "Massacre" on December 29, 1890. I personally have trouble with the word "massacre", since to me the battle was the result of an Indian who would not give up his rifle, a failure in command, and inexperienced soldiers who opened fire without orders often shooting there own men. This lead to a general outburst of firing. At the end 150 men, women, and children of the Sioux had been killed and 51 wounded; twenty-five soldiers also died, thirty-nine were wounded (6 of the wounded would also die). If you plan a massacre you don't count on killing your own people.

There were two small skirmishes later, 1) October 5, 1898, Leech Lake, Minnesota at the Battle of Sugar Point; 2) the battle of Bear Valley, Arizona when the cavalry engaged and captured a band of Yaquis Jan 9, 1918.

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The Americans had a total of 89,987 casualties. 19,276 dead, 23,554 captured or mising and 47,493 wounded. The British had 200 dead and 1,400 wounded or missing. The Germans suffered 84,834 casualties. 15,652 dead, 27,582 captured or missing and 41,600 wounded.

Early on the misty winter morning of 16 December 1944, over 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Adolf Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his fortunes that had begun when Allied troops landed in France on D-day. Seeking to drive to the English Channel coast and split the Allied armies as they had done in May 1940, the Germans struck in the Ardennes Forest, a seventy-five-mile stretch of the front characterized by dense woods and few roads, held by four inexperienced and battle-worn American divisions stationed there for rest and seasoning.

After a day of hard fighting, the Germans broke through the American front, surrounding most of an infantry division, seizing key crossroads, and advancing their spearheads toward the Meuse River, creating the projection that gave the battle its name.

Stories spread of the massacre of soldiers and civilians at Malmedy and Stavelot, of paratroopers dropping behind the lines, and of English-speaking German soldiers, disguised as Americans, capturing critical bridges, cutting communications lines, and spreading rumors. For those who had lived through 1940, the picture was all too familiar. Belgian townspeople put away their Allied flags and brought out their swastikas. Police in Paris enforced an all-night curfew. British veterans waited nervously to see how the Americans would react to a full-scale German offensive, and British generals quietly acted to safeguard the Meuse crossings. Even American civilians who had thought final victory was near were sobered by the Nazi onslaught.

But this was not 1940. The supreme Allied commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower rushed reinforcements to hold the shoulders of the German penetration. Within days, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. had turned his Third U.S. Army to the north and was counterattacking against the German flank. But the story of the battle of the Bulge is above all the story of American soldiers. Often isolated and unaware of the overall picture, they did their part to slow the Nazi advance, whether by delaying armored spearheads with obstinate defenses of vital crossroads, moving or burning critical gasoline stocks to keep them from the fuel-hungry German tanks, or coming up with questions on arcane Americana to stump possible Nazi infiltrators.

At the critical road junctions of St. Vith and Bastogne, American tankers and paratroopers fought off repeated attacks, and when the acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne was summoned by his German adversary to surrender, he simply responded, "Nuts!"

Within days, Patton's Third Army had relieved Bastogne, and to the north, the 2d U.S. Armored Division stopped enemy tanks short of the Meuse on Christmas Day. Through January, American troops, often wading through deep snow drifts, attacked the sides of the shrinking bulge until they had restored the front and set the stage for the final drive to victory.

Never again would Hitler be able to launch an offensive in the West on such a scale. An admiring British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill stated, "This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory." Indeed, in terms of participation and losses, the battle of the Bulge is arguably the greatest battle in American military history.

The Germans wanted to make an attempt to stop the allied advance across Europe. If they had been able to break through the lines, they could have split the Allied forces. The southern units may have been isolated and captured. The success could have meant a lessoning of pressure, which could have allowed them to regroup and be more successful. It could also have meant that a number of new weapons that were being developed could have been completed. Longer range missiles and jet aircraft being a couple that were on the verge of completion.

to drive a wedge between American and British forces

The Battle of Verdun (La Bataille de Verdun) is a very important battle from World War I. Verdun is a small city about 260 kilometres away from Paris. The battle began on February 21st, 1916, when the Germans attacked the city. It officially ended on December 18, 1916. Approximately 970,000 soldiers died in the battle and 40 million artillery shells were exchanged by the French and German armies. The Germans attacked Verdun because they thought they could break through the city and then continue into Paris. At this point, they hoped to end the war with a strong negotiation position. However, they lost the battle and their plan did not work.