In December 1944, General George S. Patton was prepared to smash his way into Germany's Saar industrial region as the Lorraine campaign came to a close. However, Hitler's winter counteroffensive, to which he committed more than 400,000 troops, led to a radical ninety-degree redeployment of Patton's Third Army into southern Luxembourg and Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive of the war, failed for a variety of reasons,...
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