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The Battle of the Bulge Episode 3: The Schnee Eifel Pocket

Letters from an American · Heather Cox Richardson · last updated

Here is the third installment of the Battle of the Bulge series in Journey to American Democracy.

It’s the story of what happened at Schnee Eifel, a forested ridge held by two untested units of the U.S. Army’s 106th Infantry Division when German troops launched the Battle of the Bulge on December 16, 1944.

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