FBC Stossel October 6, 2014
Forbidding place is a scene of one of the fiercest, bloodiest and least known battles of world war ii. Welcome to war stories. Im oliver north, coming to you from the huertgen forest in germany. These densely wooded hills are quiet now, but from september of 1944 until february of 1945, they thundered with artillery, mortar, machine gun, and tank fire. American generals that hoped for a quick push into germanys industrial heartland, but battle hardened troops were determined to hold their ground. For five months, tens of thousands of american and german soldiers battled each other and harsh te...