Peiper at Stoumont

Ordered to throw a defensive line together and block Kampfgrupper Peiper for 24 hours, Colonel Roy Fitzgerald was the first to reach Stoumont. As he deployed his forces around the village, he was surprised to find Battery C from the …

1944-12-19

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Ordered to throw a defensive line together and block Kampfgrupper Peiper for 24 hours, Colonel Roy Fitzgerald was the first to reach Stoumont. As he deployed his forces around the village, he was surprised to find Battery C from the 193rd Anti-Aircraft battalion already in position. On the morning of the 19th, Peiper attacked through the fog with two columns of tanks and infantry. Peiper's tanks were overrunning Fitzgerald's position when Shermans from the 743rd tank battalion arrived along with a motley crew of vehicles from the repair depot at Sprimont. In the Ambleve Valley, Peiper's Panzergrenadiers had taken Cheneux and repulsed an attack by Para units of the 504th. At dusk, Obersturmbannführer Peiper gave up on his attack and moved south across the Ambleve into more open country better suited for his tanks.

Stoumont, Belgium

The Malmedy massacre was a war crime committed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper, a German Waffen-SS unit led by Joachim Peiper and part of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, at Baugnez crossroads near Malmedy, Belgium, on December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. Eighty-four American prisoners of war were massacred by their German captors. The prisoners were assembled in a field and shot with machine guns; those still alive were killed by close-range shots to the head.

Wikipedia: Malmedy massacre

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