During the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive spanned across a roughly 75-mile front line in the Ardennes Forest, where they launched their attack against the Allied forces. PHOTO ...

Hasso von Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army for a critical week during the Battle of the Bulge ... crossroads in the northern sector of the Ardennes Forest region of France, Belgium and Luxembourg.

the town became a linchpin of the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler hoped to split the Allied armies and retake the crucial harbor at Antwerp. His attack through the Ardennes forest, accompanied by a ...