WinterThunder

In late 1944, in the wake of the allied forces successful D-Day invasion, it seemed as if WWII was all but over. On December 16, with the onset of winter, the German army launched a surprise counteroffensive through the densely forested Ardennes that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would, the Germans hoped, turn the tide of the war in their favor. You can call it Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein Watch on the Rhine, Bataille des Ardennes , or the Ardennes Counteroffensive...