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Anonymous ID: ae3d7a Jan. 7, 2021, 9:30 p.m. No.38108   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8109 >>8113 >>8187 >>8200 >>8229 >>8243

Battle of the Bulge Historical facts

 

Nazis Sent in Imposters and Changed Road Signs

 

Another Nazi strategy was to attempt to infiltrate the Allied troops.

 

Veteran Vernon Brantley, a private first class in the 289th Regiment, told the Fort Jackson Leader in 2009 that his unit had just arrived in Germany from France when they were told to load up and return to Luxembourg.

 

“We got word that the Germans had dropped a lot of paratroopers behind our lines, and that they were dressed like American Soldiers and spoke English,” he said. “… They were there to create confusion.”

 

The Germans also changed road signs and spread misinformation.

 

“The Nazis were carefully groomed for their dangerous mission,” LIFE magazine reported in 1945. “They spoke excellent English and their slang had been tuned up by close association with American prisoners of war in German camps. … Under the rules of the Hague Convention these Germans were classifiable as spies and subject to an immediate court martial by a military tribunal. After brief deliberation American officers found them guilty, and ordered the usual penalty for spies: death by firing squad.”

 

To stop infiltrators, the U.S. troops would ask suspected Germans to answer American trivia questions.

 

"Three times I was ordered to prove my identity," Gen. Omar Bradley recalled, according to the Washington Post. "The first time by identifying Springfield as the capital of Illinois; the second by locating the guard between the center and the tackle on a line of scrimmage; the third time by naming the then-current spouse of a blonde named Betty Grable."

Anonymous ID: ae3d7a Jan. 7, 2021, 9:34 p.m. No.38113   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8114 >>8187 >>8200 >>8229 >>8243

>>38108

 

The fucking storm was THEM not us??? Whoa..

 

[Their STORM]

 

B2 Battle of the Bulge

 

Troops Faced Severe Cold

 

Hitler’s mid-December timing of the attack—one of the bloodiest of the war—was strategic, as freezing rain, thick fog, deep snow drifts and record-breaking low temperatures brutalized the American troops. More than 15,000 “cold injuries”—trench foot, pneumonia, frostbite—were reported that winter.

 

“I was from Buffalo, I thought I knew cold,” baseball Hall of Famer and WWII veteran Warren Spahn said in The Love of Baseball. “But I didn’t really know cold until the Battle of the Bulge.”