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Battle of the Bulge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The goal of these operations as planned by the Germans was to split the Allied line in half, capturing Antwerp and then proceeding to encircle and destroy four Allied armies, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis' favour. |
 | | Overseeing the operation were Field Marshals Walther Model, the commander of the German Army Group B, and Gerd von Rundstedt, the overall commander of German troops in the West. |
 | | Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive of the war on the Western Front, soon had the understrength Seventh U.S. Army, which had, at Eisenhower's orders, sent troops, equipment, and supplies north to reinforce the American armies in the Ardennes, in dire straits. |
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