A tour of the Bulge Battlefield

"Preface

To the south side of the road leading from the east downhill into Stavelot, Belgium the keen-eyed traveller can spot a moss-covered low stone foundation, all that remains of a whitewashed brick structure built over 60 years ago and used as a guard post by Belgian soldiers in 1940. Four years on, in December 1944, another group of soldiers, this time American engineers warily stood guard in the late afternoon dark as the might of Hitler's elite inched towards them down the narrow winding road in what today we call the Battle of the Bulge.

Miles southwest of Stavelot at Dinant, on the east bank of the mighty Meuse River, beneath its imposing ancient citadel, a spectacular rock outcrop named Le Rocher Bayard marks the westernmost point reached by German forces in this last gasp offensive. Noted military historian, Dr. Martin Blumenson once referred to the offensive as "The Climatic Battle in the West."

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