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When German Commanders Called Patton’s Bastogne Relief “Operationally IMPOSSIBLE” December 19th, 1944. If General George Smith Patton hadn’t turned his entire army 90° north in 72 hours, 10,000 United States paratroopers would have been annihilated in the frozen forests of Belgium. Not captured, not forced to surrender, anyhillated. The man they called old blood and guts was about to attempt something that every military expert in the European theater said was operationally impossible. German commanders were so confident in their assessment that they told Adolf Hitler the surrounded United States forces would be crushed within 48 hours. They didn’t know they were about to face the most aggressive general in the history of modern warfare. This is the story of how General George Smith Patton did the impossible and why German field marshals would later call it the greatest military maneuver they had ever witnessed. The morning of December 16th, 1944 had begun with an earthshattering roar. Over 200,000 German soldiers supported by more than a thousand tanks smashed through a thinly defended section of the Allied lines in the Arden’s forest. Adolf Hitler had gambled everything on one massive surprise attack code named Operation Waktam Rin. His objective was simple and devastating…………..

December 19th, 1944. If General George Smith Patton hadn’t turned his entire army 90° north in 72 hours, 10,000 United States paratroopers would have been...
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