The Battle That Destroyed Kampfgruppe Peiper | WW2 Battlefield Tour
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By December 23rd 1944, Joachim Peiper and Kampfgruppe Peiper were finished. The most feared SS battlegroup of the Battle of the Bulge had fought its way deep into the Ardennes ā only to grind to a halt halfway to the Meuse, surrounded in the small Belgian hamlet of La Gleize.
WW2 historians James Holland and Al Murray walk the ground across three decisive locations: Stavelot, where American engineers and infantry held the vital bridge; Cheneux, where the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment launched a brutal night attack that drove the SS out of the village; and La Gleize itself ā where Peiper abandoned his tanks, his wounded, and his equipment, and slipped away on foot through the Ardennes forest.
This is the story of how America destroyed the finest armoured battlegroup Germany sent west.
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Peiper at Stavelot
11:18 Setting the scene at Cheneux
15:30 Ross Carter and 504th at Cheneux
19:00 Driving to La Gleize
19:48 The end of the road at La Gleize
23:04 Conclusions at King Tiger in La Gleize
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And along the fence line, there were a few poppies growing.
Point of order. The red oxide paint is a myth, the order was to stop using a full coat of the Dunkelgelb as a base coat. Instead the red oxide was overprinted in the factory with the three tone camo so as to save approx one third of the paint. The next directive that wasnāt fully enacted by the end of the war was to have a single coat of Green paint to replace the Dunkelgelb. In fact some vehicles didnāt even have any red oxide.
The Battle That Destroyed Kampfgruppe Peiper | WW2 Battlefield Tour
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šWatch all our full Battle of the Bulge war walks here The Battle of the Bulge - A Walking The Gr...
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By December 23rd 1944, Joachim Peiper and Kampfgruppe Peiper were finished. The most feared SS battlegroup of the Battle of the Bulge had fought its way deep into the Ardennes ā only to grind to a halt halfway to the Meuse, surrounded in the small Belgian hamlet of La Gleize.
WW2 historians James Holland and Al Murray walk the ground across three decisive locations: Stavelot, where American engineers and infantry held the vital bridge; Cheneux, where the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment launched a brutal night attack that drove the SS out of the village; and La Gleize itself ā where Peiper abandoned his tanks, his wounded, and his equipment, and slipped away on foot through the Ardennes forest.
This is the story of how America destroyed the finest armoured battlegroup Germany sent west.
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Peiper at Stavelot
11:18 Setting the scene at Cheneux
15:30 Ross Carter and 504th at Cheneux
19:00 Driving to La Gleize
19:48 The end of the road at La Gleize
23:04 Conclusions at King Tiger in La Gleize
I think this day arrived when i started listening to you guys. Thank you gentlemen for the accuracy and passion that proved once again the old bugger was correct.