Latest news about Ardennes History Help identifying Ardennes findHi all Wonder if anyone can help identify the below. I found it in the remains of a foxhole in the Ardennes Forest. It was at the same depth (and... Continue reading
Order of Battle - 5th Infantry Division 1944On December 16 1944 the German Ardennes Counteroffensive began, and the division relieved the 95th Inf Div at the Saarlautern bridgehead, attacking out of it December 18. After slow progress Waldbilling and Haller fell December 25 1944. ... Continue reading
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A DAY OUT IN THE ARDENNES.... Division during the Ardennes Offensive, which in the US is known as the Battle of the Bulge. History has been a bit unkind to those US troops not fighting in Bastogne, because to many Americans the Battle in the Bulge is Bastogne. ... Continue reading
Belgium: Trains, Race Cars, and a Little HistoryMais ce n’est pas tout. . . deep in the beau provence of Wallonia, nestled in the Ardennes forest, is a slab of tarmac. And every September, thousands of people, including Burgess and I and our equally crazy Jamaican friends Dawn and ... Continue reading
Back to Belgium - Liège, The Ardennes, BelgiumThe region's history of occupation and destruction lends itself to being the home of Europe's peace-ensuring institutions, but I can't help but suggest that an underlying motivation remains an inferiority complex Belgium and Luxembourg ... Continue reading
987th Field Artillery BattalionsArdennes 16th of Dec into the 25th of Jan 1945. Central Europe 22 of March to June 1945 Attached To: 27 Jan 45-14 Feb 45 - US 9th Infantry Division 4th Infantry Division. "Ivy Division" 01.04.1945-23.04.1945 - 9th US Armored Division ... Continue reading
World War II: A Military and Social HistoryThe similarities between the 1918 German offensive and the December 1944 Ardennes offensive that resulted in the Battle of the Bulge were also new to me - in both cases Germany made a colossal strategic blunder squandering assets that ... Continue reading
This Week In Military/Aviation History 15 - 21 SeptemberEdouard Nieport dies after making an emergency landing during army maneuvers in the Ardennes in France. 17 September 1911 Calbraith P. Rodgers begins the first coast-to-coast flight across the USA, from New York to Pasadena, ... Continue reading
Bulging - Houffalize, The Ardennes, BelgiumThere was a pushbike race going on, but luckily the old GPS was working well, so up another valley, we were on our way to Bastogne. Home of the Battle of the Bulge, so much history, history I knew a little, but wanted to know more of ... Continue reading
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