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The Battle of St. Vith was an engagement in Belgium fought during the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine in World War II. It was one of several battles on December 16, 1944 constituting the opening of Germany's Ardennes counteroffensive (more commonly known as the "Battle of the Bulge").
English: This is a map of the Ardennes, Belgium, showing the advance of the German LXVI Corps on St. Vith, December 16, 1944. This is a sketch map, not to scale, but the furthest German advance covers about five miles. This map was drawn on Inkscape version 0.47.
The phrase "Battle of the Bulge" was coined by contemporary press to describe the bulge in German front lines on wartime news maps, [187] [q] and it became the most widely used name for the battle. The offensive was planned by the German forces with utmost secrecy, with minimal radio traffic and movements of troops and equipment under cover of ...
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Eupen-Malmedy border changes between 1920 and 1945. Eupen-Malmedy is a small, predominantly German-speaking region in eastern Belgium.It consists of three administrative cantons around the towns of Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith which encompass some 730 square kilometres (280 sq mi).
St. Vith was transferred to Belgium on March 6, 1925, by the Treaty of Versailles after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I. American soldiers in St. Vith during the Battle of the Bulge. An important road and railway junction, St. Vith was fought over in the 1944 Battle of the Bulge during World War II.
In the Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. First Army withdrew from St. Vith while III Corps of the Third Army moved north to relieve the siege of Bastogne. [32] As an economical measure, the U.S. government banned horse racing effective January 3. [6] "Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters went to #1 on the Billboard singles charts.
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.