the best and the most learn more about america s neutrality and hurled war one in world war i. when the classroom here on american history tv. all the boats began on december 16, 1944 in belgium, luxembourg, and france. a keyth was a key crossroads. episode fromicture 1965 telling the story of the desperate fight around the small town from the perspective of men from both sides who were there, including lieutenant will rogers junior. not wealthy, not well-known. before what happened here in .ecember, 1944, or since for seven days, history paused at a crossroads in this village and then passed on. unless we call history the echoes of the men who make it, as they did the battle of st. vith. not much time for sleeping, eating at irregular hours. everyone in every unit was fighting for its own life. maybe this is it. firing at 150 yards. when you are cold, you stay cold. there is no way of getting warm. we have no orders to retire. in 1944, p german army had
I knew right then that i was going to get it. Half an hour later, i did. We had been fighting for ten weeks. We brought back a spirit of feeling of confidence not only in the staff but also in the regiments, battalions and companies which really put us in good stead for the future. These are the men who served in the 84th Infantry Division during the final months of world war ii. First committed to action on the siegfried line in november 1944, they were caught up in the bat many of the bulge and the conclusive engagements that followed. This is their story. Hitler ordered a major counselor offensive. In hitler ordered a as fog and sleet grounded all allied plane, infantry southwest into belgium recapturing the key road junctions. And surrounding the defenders. A major part of the german attack was turned against the town of marche, beyond which lay paris recently liberated and antwerp, the chief supply port. The 84th Infantry Division had left the siegfried line and had taken up posit