At Baugnez, Belgium, the SS shot over 100 American POWs. If they wore black uniforms of the SS, they were shot. This was the only time I saw American troops kill German soldiers that tried to surrender. The SS were inhuman at this point, they killed everyone old men, women and children. They were using every combat unit they had left to try to stop the Allied drive into mother Germany. The Germans at this point were desperate. We found other units and organized into a unified fighting force as best we could. “We were all on our own fighting as single units. Most of our communications were knocked out. We were low on food, ammo, gas, and our heavy winter clothing had not arrived. Everyone had frozen feet, hands or faces. The sky was overcast so our Air Force could not come to help. The weather was very cold, 10 to 20 below zero, heavy wind and snow. On an eighty-mile front we had 75,000 men in this area: the Ardennes.
They hit us with 1900 heavy artillery, 250,000 soldiers, 100 large tanks, and other assault weapons. Many say that the King Tiger is the ultimate development of German tank technology, but it arrived much too late to help Germany out in the war, and whilst an impressive vehicle in many ways, it was so technologically advanced that a struggling Germany was never going to be able to change the war for Germany, no matter how good it was.December 16, all hell broke loose: the start of the Battle of the Bulge. The tank had a few names, but it was first brought into service in 1944 and only lasted one year, as the war was over by 1945. They already had the Tiger I, but how could they make this fearsome tank even more potent?The Henschel & Son company soon came up with the Tiger II, or King Tiger. There were also wonder weapons such as the V1 and V2 rockets, but another area Germany looked to for upgrading was in its armored division. It started to develop some rather crazy weapons and military vehicles, such as the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. As the Second World War got into its final couple of years, Germany really started to push the boundaries of what was possible in the military world.
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