PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Starting with some of the most common ones from the Battle of Bulge:
Kampfgruppe Peiper did not make the deepest advance during the Battle of the Bulge, that honour goes to the 2nd Panzer division of the mundane Wehrmacht, with 116th being close second.
German plans were not based on capture of American fuel depots but on their own fuel reserves, any captured fuel depots would be a welcome bonus. Their fuel consumption and delivery plans were badly overoptimistic though.
The decisive defensive action of the offensive was the battle for the Elsenborne Ridge.
The situation in Bastonge was nowhere as bad as the myth would have it, (not that the defenders would know it) most of the German units that supposedly took part in the battle actually bypassed the town and moved towards Meuse, so the actual encirclement was carried out by a depleted division so there was a rough parity between both forces and there was only one mayor attack before the encirclement was broken.
Ironically, the heaviest fighting around the Bastonge was after the linkup, once the city was not in danger of falling anymore.
Kampfgruppe Peiper did not make the deepest advance during the Battle of the Bulge, that honour goes to the 2nd Panzer division of the mundane Wehrmacht, with 116th being close second.
German plans were not based on capture of American fuel depots but on their own fuel reserves, any captured fuel depots would be a welcome bonus. Their fuel consumption and delivery plans were badly overoptimistic though.
The decisive defensive action of the offensive was the battle for the Elsenborne Ridge.
The situation in Bastonge was nowhere as bad as the myth would have it, (not that the defenders would know it) most of the German units that supposedly took part in the battle actually bypassed the town and moved towards Meuse, so the actual encirclement was carried out by a depleted division so there was a rough parity between both forces and there was only one mayor attack before the encirclement was broken.
Ironically, the heaviest fighting around the Bastonge was after the linkup, once the city was not in danger of falling anymore.