Twin Battles at Warnach & Bigonville

On the afternoon of December 23, 1944, American engineers completed setting up a bridge south of Warnach. General Earnest's men, led by the 35th Tank Battalion, rapidly advanced towards Warnach, but were soon pushed back. On their right, Colonel Blanchard's …

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On the afternoon of December 23, 1944, American engineers completed setting up a bridge south of Warnach. General Earnest's men, led by the 35th Tank Battalion, rapidly advanced towards Warnach, but were soon pushed back. On their right, Colonel Blanchard's forces were also on the move, but were soon stopped by withering fire from the Fallschirm Regiment defending Bigonville. Major General Dager's advance against Burnon also stalled. The Germans had held against these first assaults, but the Americans were reforming and preparing for a three-prong thrust on the 24th.

Warnach, Belgium

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II, and took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of the war in Europe. The offensive was intended to stop Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy four Allied armies and force the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor.

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