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Honors the 81,000 American troops killed or wounded in the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes between December 16, 1944 and January 25, 1945.  It also recognizes the 600,000 American men who fought three German Armies in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg and won the largest land battle ever fought by the U.S. Army.  In the snow and sleet of the bitter winter of 1944-45, they turned an apparent defeat into what the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called "an ever famous American victory."  The Battle of the Bulge remains the largest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army. It began December 16, 1944 when three powerful German armies launched Adolf Hitler’s last great offensive, and ended January 25, 1945. Some 600,000 American troops fought in the battle in the coldest winter in Europe’s recent history. Almost 20,000 GI’s were killed in action. The German defeat shattered the Wehrmacht, and is credited with hastening the end of the war in Europe.

This is a very informative website dedicated to telling the story of “Task Force Baum”’s daring Hammelburg Raid to free American P.O.W.’s from their German captors.  This was a very interesting chapter of the war in Europe!