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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.
Battle of the Bulge; Part of the Western Front of World War II: American soldiers of the 117th Infantry Regiment, Tennessee National Guard, part of the 30th Infantry Division, move past a destroyed American M5A1 "Stuart" tank on their march to recapture the town of St. Vith during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945.
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.
The First United States Army captured St. Vith, the last German stronghold in the Ardennes "bulge". [29] The 1st Ukrainian Front reached the Oder around Oppeln and Steinau. [29] The 20th Indian Division in Burma took Myinmu. [7] Died: Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, 37, German jurist (executed for anti-Nazi activities); Newton E. Mason, 94 ...
Battle of Celles: The Battle Before the Meuse; Each of these scenarios uses a different 17" x 22" hex grid map, all scaled at 2.9 km (1.8 mi) per hex. [3] In addition, a separate rulebook includes rules for two larger games that cover the entire May 1940 blitzkrieg campaign in the Ardennes, and the entire "Battle of the Bulge" campaign in ...
MacDonald, Charles B. (1985), A Time for Trumpets, The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge, William Morrow and Company, Inc., ISBN 0-688-03923-5; Zaloga, Steven (15 January 2003), Battle of the Bulge 1944 (1): St Vith and the Northern Shoulder (Campaign), Howard Gerrard (Illustrator), Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84176-560-0
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).