MEN OF WAR ( PC): Kampfgruppe Peipers Last Stand December 28th 1944 La Glaize
12 days after the onslaught of Operation Autumn Mist in the Battle of the Bulge, the German advance is sputtering out. . The U. S. Army engineers blow bridges blast roadways, forcing the heavy Panzers to take to narrow bicycle trails thick woods. . Fuel supplies for the Germans are nonexistant Pattons 3rd Armoured Division is already swinging north in overwhelming force to erase the bulge. . The U. S. 101st Airborne held the Belgian town of Bastogne despie the furious German onslaughts, thus cutting off this vital crossroad that leads to Hitler s primary objectives. . Factor in as well that the weather has cleared massive Allied airpower is boming the German troops relentlessly day night. . The Germans are forced to defend whichever perimeter they occupy, without supplies or of German armoured vehicles thousands of troops are shattered from the constant air attacks. . Kampfgruppe Peiper, was the German armoured spearhead once meant to shattered the American lines, now br, br,
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