Pete Kelsey, Martin K.A. Morgan, and the rest of the team investigates the Hürtgen Forest in Germany to uncover the hidden traces of the longest and bloodiest single battle in U.S. Army history.
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I’ve read up on many WWII battles, but I’ve never heard of this one.
What great information; this was an excellent video!
You may know it by another name, the Battle of the Ardennes 😉
I joined the Canadian Army in the 1980’s. The winter gear was excellent, allowing us to function in -30C conditions. One of the worst things that I can see missing from the American kit, vital for even temperatures just below freezing are: woolen head covering and mittens. Unlined leather gloves are next to useless in winter conditions. A steel helmet alone will wick away body heat from the head at a high rate.
Y’all, stop with the AI voice overs
Some twenty years later the US Army made pretty much the same mistake mucking around in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam.
My uncle was in the Army Corp of Engineers in WW2, he went into the Herken forest, he just bulldozed dirt over them. I remember he telling about it.
Ok they act like the dragons teeth and bunkers were “just discovered” but they were well documented at the time of the war and the Americans new of the Siegfried line
The great scholar Paul Fussell wrote a great memoir about his experience in the Hurtgen Forest: Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic. It was a battle that should not have been fought-it was in support of a canceled offensive. I lost a lot of respect for General Norman Cota, who was a hero on D-Day, but blamed ordinary GIs for the failure of this doomed offensive. Many of the failures (like the 893rd Tank Destroyer battalion’s failure to advance) had more to do with terrain and poor planning, not a lack of fighting spirit. Cota was at his best when he was close to the front, but Bradley ordered his generals to avoid that because they couldn’t see the big picture that way, and were in danger of being killed. He didn’t conduct reconnaissance before the attack on the 28th, didn’t use combined arms tactics effectively (or at all, really) and continued the attack long after it was clearly pointless. The terrain neutralized all of the American advantages in air power, mobility, and firepower.
Could have carpet bombed the whole area
I am MA army veteran of operation Iraqi freedom and I got opportunity to tour Normandy on the 80th anniversary. The sacrifice and turmoil and pain of everyone involved is more than we could possibly imagine nowadays. What makes me sad even more is they’re so few of those great men and women around anymore. We should just give them a hug.