Hitler's Perspective, September 1944
How the Plan Was Born
II. PLANNING THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE
Details of the Plan
The Big Solution
A Double Envelopment?
The Order of Battle
The Allies Return to the Attack
The Terrain
Deception and Camouflage
The Western Front in Early December
The Intelligence Failure
The German Concentration
V. THE SIXTH PANZER ARMY ATTACK
The 99th Division Sector
The Initial Attack, 16 December
The First Attacks in the Monschau-Hofen Sector Are Repulsed, 16 December
The German Effort Continues, 17-18 December
Losheimergraben Is Lost
The German Attack Toward Rocherath and Krinkelt, 16-17 December
The 395th Infantry Conforms to the Withdrawal
The 2d Division Gives Up the Wahlerscheid Attack
The 394th Infantry Abandons the Murringen Position
VI. THE GERMAN NORTHERN SHOULDER IS JAMMED
The 2d Division Withdraws
The 1st Infantry Division Sends Reinforcements to Butgenbach
The Defense of the Twin Villages, 18 December
The Last Attack at Hofen Fails, 18 December
The 2d Division Withdraws to the Elsenborn Line, 19 December
The Enemy Tries the Western Flank, 19-23 December
VII. BREAKTHROUGH AT THE SCHNEE EIFEL
Introductory Note
Dispositions of the 106th Infantry Division
Enemy Preparations for Another Cannae
The Attack in the Losheim Gap
The Attack Hits the 106th Division
The 424th Infantry and CCB, 9th Armored
Cannae in the Schnee Eifel
The Question of Air Resupply
VIII. THE FIFTH PANZER ARMY ATTACKS THE 28TH INFANTRY DIVISION
The 110th Infantry Sector, 16-18 December
The 112th Infantry Sector, 16-20 December
The Fall of Wiltz
IX. THE ATTACK BY THE GERMAN LEFT WING: 16-20 DECEMBER
The 109th Infantry Defense on the Sauer and Our Rivers, 16-20 December
Elements of the 9th Armored Division Battle at the Sauer, 16-20 December
X. THE GERMAN SOUTHERN SHOULDER IS JAMMED
The German Thrust Begins
Southern Flank-A Summing Up
XI. THE 1ST SS PANZER DIVISION'S DASH WESTWARD, AND OPERATION GREIF
Kampfgruppe Peiper on the Move
Operation Greif
XII. THE FIRST ATTACKS AT ST. VITH
The 7th Armored Division Move to St. Vith
The Enemy Strikes at the St. Vith Perimeter
XIII. VIII CORPS ATTEMPTS TO DELAY THE ENEMY
CCR, 9th Armored Division, and the Road to Bastogne
The Advance of the XLVII Panzer Corps
Team Cherry on the Longvilly Road
The 101st Airborne Division Moves Into Bastogne
XIV. THE VIII CORPS BARRIER LINES
Middleton's First Moves
The Gap North of Bastogne
Defense Southwest of Bastogne
Renewed Drive Around Bastogne
XV. THE GERMAN SALIENT EXPANDS TO THE WEST
The 30th Division Meets Peiper
The West Flank of the XVIII Airborne Corps, 20 December
Action in Front of the XVIII Airborne Corps Right Wing, 20 December
The Net Closes on Peiper
XVI. ONE THREAT SUBSIDES; ANOTHER EMERGES
The Attempt To Relieve Peiper's Kampfgruppe
The 3d Armored Division Is Checked, 21-23 December
The Fight at the Baraque de Fraiture Crossroads, 23 December
The Defenders of St. Vith Pass to the XVIII Airborne Corps
The Enemy Closes on the St. Vith Salient
The Final Withdrawal From the St. Vith Sector
XVIII. THE VII CORPS MOVES TO BLUNT THE SALIENT
Division of the Battlefield
The VII Corps Assembles
German Armor Advances on the VII Corps
The Main Battle Is Joined, 24 and 25 December
The Initial Deployment East of Bastogne
Bastogne Is Encircled
The Enemy Begins a Concentric Attack
The Battle on Christmas Day
XX. THE XII CORPS ATTACKS THE SOUTHERN SHOULDER
The End of the Defensive Battle, 22 December
The XII Corps Moves to Luxembourg
The XII Corps' Counterattack
XXI. THE III CORPS' COUNTERATTACK TOWARD BASTOGNE
Preparations for the Attack
The 80th Division Advance
The 26th Infantry Division Attack
The 4th Armored Division Attack
The 80th Division Battle in the Woods, 25-26 December
The 26th Division Fight for a Bridgehead on the Sure, 24-27 December
The 4th Armored Division Reaches Bastogne
XXII. THE BATTLE BEFORE THE MEUSE
The Meuse River Line
The Meuse Seems Within Reach
The Celles Pocket
The Fight at Humain
The Fight at Verdenne
XXIII. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE SALM AND THE OUR: 24 DECEMBER-2 JANUARY
The Battle at the Manhay Crossroads
The Fight in the Aisne Valley
The 2d SS Panzer Is Halted
The 82d Airborne Withdraws From the Salm River Line
"The Sad Sack Affair"
The Elsenborn Shoulder
XXIV. THE THIRD ARMY OFFENSIVE
Widening the Bastogne Corridor
The Opposing Grand Tactics
The Sibret-Villeroux Actions
The Two Attacks Collide
The III Corps Joins the Attack
The Lone Battle of the 26th Division
The VIII Corps' Attack Continues
The Weather
The Opposing Troop Strengths
The Opposing Weapons
The Artillery Arm in the Ardennes
The Air Weapon
Logistics
The Turning Point in the Ardennes
The Place of the Ardennes Offensive in World War II
page updated 27 November 2000