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00:00The ultimate trick is to keep in mind
00:05In 1944 two generals go head to head in an epic battle
00:12The fate of the second world war hangs in the balance
00:17US General Omar Bradley and German Field Marshal Walter Modell
00:22May be far apart on the battlefield
00:25在他們的想法,他們會站在同樣的桌子
00:31現在,現在的現代的現代總統會進入
00:35Bradley and Modell
00:38他們會選擇他們的方式和方式
00:41他們的決定, dilemmas
00:44他們的決定
00:48一組的軍隊
00:49他們的工具
00:51他們的機器
00:53他們的火力
00:54他們的火力
00:56為了解
00:57早期的火力
00:58他們的火力
00:59為了解
01:00為了解
01:01對戰鬥有爆發
01:02你們的火力
01:04上場
01:10他們在南方的西方
01:12他們正在南方的戰鬥
01:13他們會舉辦
01:14軍隊
01:18他們會發展向西方
01:20破壞
01:24他们认为是全约的,但他们的英文是一种,不过,不过,他们认为他们的词
01:36习近书的一切将军困在11末的时间
01:42他将军困在最终的军困上的军困,他们在一终的军困
01:48一终的军困
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02:00The man Hitler picks to run this mission is one of his most successful and loyal generals
02:07Field Marshal Walter Modell
02:10Model deserved his name as Hitler's fireman
02:17Again and again he was thrown into the most difficult places
02:20because he was an extremely effective, tough commander
02:25General Sebastian Roberts is an infantry commander and expert strategist in the British Army
02:31He will analyse Walter Modell's role in the Battle of the Bulge
02:36Model was an immensely able staff officer
02:41An imaginative mover, deployer of formations
02:46Switching things fast was one of his hallmarks
02:51Ruthless in command and particularly ruthless about the enemy
02:57And his own subordinate commanders and staff officers
03:00If they weren't cutting the mustard he sacked them without question
03:04And so he wasn't popular except with his soldiers
03:08And with the rank and file I think they thought he was their man, a soldier's general
03:13When Modell learns of his Führer's audacious plans, he is deeply concerned
03:22Hitler wants to drive a series of armoured spearheads through the thinly held American lines in the Ardennes forest in Belgium
03:33The fast-moving tanks would then dash ahead and capture the crossings over the river Merz
03:43From the rear, a wave of support troops would sweep up resistance and strengthen the attack
03:52Hitler is convinced that he can finally divide and conquer his enemies
03:59He believes the offensive will drive a crushing wedge between the American commanders Bradley and Eisenhower
04:10And the British member of their alliance, General Montgomery
04:20But Modell thinks Hitler's plan is far too ambitious
04:25The German generals concerned, Modell and his subordinates and superiors
04:32All recognized that they simply didn't have the military strength to do this
04:38And they proposed instead to Hitler's fury
04:42That they should go for a more limited aim
04:44Which would be simply to capture the crossings of the Merz river
04:49Beyond the mountains of the Ardennes
04:51Rather than trying to reach Antwerp hundreds of kilometres away
04:58Modell would confine his forces closer to home
05:02He would stay east of the river Merz
05:07And launch two prongs of a pincer movement to surround and crush the US forces there
05:12Then they could make a choice
05:17Go for the bigger push that Hitler envisaged up to Antwerp
05:22Or stay where they were and allow the Americans and the British to counter attack them in a cold and bitter winter
05:29It gave them more options
05:31Modell tries to sell his plan to Hitler hoping to change his mind
05:35As he has done many times before
05:37But not this time
05:40Hitler was insistent
05:42Go for Antwerp
05:44Grudgingly, Modell prepares to do his Führer's bidding
05:48He knows that this is going to be the toughest job he's ever done
05:52His enemy has superior air power
05:58So Modell needs a long stretch of bad weather to keep the Allied bombers on the ground
06:02And his own troops must move extremely fast
06:08To have any hope of success
06:11They need to reach the river Merz in only four days
06:16But Modell also knows that the choice of battleground will give him his biggest trump card
06:22The element of surprise
06:24The Ardennes is the last place the enemy expect him to attack
06:28The steep and densely wooded terrain forces his tanks to stick to the narrow tracks
06:35This means they can only travel nose to tail and make easy targets
06:42Taking out a single tank at the front could block the way for a whole column of Modell's attacking armour
06:49It's the worst possible country for tanks
06:55And all the supporting stuff that you need with tanks
06:58Remember a force of 200 tanks has a tail that probably takes 15 kilometers of road
07:04And if it's on one road and it's discovered
07:08Enemy fighter bombers
07:10You're terribly vulnerable
07:13Attacking through the Ardennes is bound to take the Allies by surprise
07:17But sneaking a quarter of a million men into position right under their noses
07:23Is a massive challenge for Modell
07:28By December 15th 1944
07:31Modell's assault force is in place
07:34Undetected
07:36250,000 men supported by artillery and tanks
07:41Lie in wait right in front of the enemy lines
07:43None of them has any idea what's about to happen
07:50Then they receive the order from Modell's HQ
07:55They will attack at dawn
07:58Across the front line from Modell and completely oblivious to the threat
08:08Is American General Omar Bradley
08:12Somebody once described him as a rather sort of introspective gentle soul
08:19He takes offence very easily
08:21He's pretty prickly and I think he's actually a bit insecure
08:24General Julian Thompson has commanded Special Forces operations all over the globe
08:30He's going to analyse Omar Bradley's part in the Battle of the Bulge
08:33His direct experience of fighting was pretty limited
08:38He never saw a battle as a commander until Sicily in 1943
08:43So he's not actually very experienced
08:47General Bradley is using the Ardennes to train his green recruits
08:51And let battle-worn veterans recover
08:54One of the reasons they were put there was because it was such a quiet place
09:00And there wasn't going to be an attack
09:01There is no warning of the storm of steel that's about to be unleashed
09:08On the evening of December 15th, Bradley's men flocked to a concert by movie star Marlene Dietrich
09:16While just a stone's throw away, the Germans are getting ready to attack
09:22December 16th, 1944, 5.30 a.m.
09:33For the Germans, it's Null Tag, day zero
09:38Just before dawn, Modell begins the Ardennes offensive with a raging storm of fire from the German artillery guns
09:44Then out of the mist comes the sound of armor
09:55Tracks clattering, the squeaking noise, the rumble
10:00Crash of the tank guns driving over them
10:04Followed by infantry in their half tracks
10:06Ruthless SS Panzer Grenadiers
10:11With their machine guns, grenades
10:15Just fighting their way through and wiping out everything in their path
10:18The green American soldiers have no idea what's hitting them
10:23Terrifying for newly arrived soldiers who have never been in battle before
10:27Who's been told you're in a quiet area
10:30And Christmas turkey is coming up in two days time
10:32And then this attack comes rolling into you
10:38Model's infantry blitzed the American positions
10:42With a brand new secret weapon
10:47Until now, an infantryman had to choose between two very different guns
10:53The Germans had at their disposal, okay, these kind of weapons
10:58They had the Mauser bolt-action type rifle
11:03And they had the MP40 submachine gun
11:06The Mauser, because it had a long barrel
11:10It was very good at long distance
11:12But when you cock it, load it, and fire it
11:16Cock it, load it, fire it
11:18Not very practical when you're attacking trenches
11:20You only had about five rounds anyway
11:22And soon run out of ammunition
11:24On the other hand, okay, the MP40
11:28Okay, had a larger magazine
11:30But wasn't very good at long distance
11:33The bullets are going to be flying all over the place
11:36You know, dropping low
11:38Probably hitting the ground
11:40Well before they get anywhere near the enemy
11:43When it came to assaulting trenches
11:46Neither of these weapons were really any good
11:48But German engineers managed to merge the rifle and the machine pistol into a single weapon
11:57It fires accurate single shots at a distance
12:03But at the flick of a switch, it spits out a deadly hail of bullets
12:08Hitler loves the new gun
12:11He names it Sturmgewehr
12:15Assault rifle
12:17And issues it to the troops destined for the Ardennes
12:20The assault rifle gives the German infantrymen high precision and immense firepower
12:29It is the ideal weapon for taking on the Americans in their foxholes
12:36In most parts, the German troops smash through the American lines and wreak havoc
12:52Americans tumble back in chaos
12:55And either surrender or get killed
13:00By the end of the first day, the Germans have pushed back the American front
13:04In an ever-growing bulge
13:07Which gives the battle its name
13:13Modal reports to Hitler that, so far, day zero is going to plan
13:19When the Germans break through the US lines, the American in charge is far away from his command post
13:31General Bradley is in Paris, celebrating the promotion of his old friend and current boss, General Eisenhower
13:39Bradley was part of the West Point class of 1915, along with Eisenhower, known as the class that stars fell on
13:50Because so many of them became generals, because they were just lucky enough to be born at the right time
13:53He had the ear of Eisenhower, he was a buddy of Eisenhower's, they were both classmates at West Point
14:01They got on, and I think Eisenhower felt comfortable with Bradley too
14:06In a sense that Bradley tended, though he did occasionally, tended to sort of do as he was told
14:13When the news of the German attacks reaches Bradley, he doesn't take it seriously
14:17He doesn't believe it. He's in, with Eisenhower, it's the 16th of December, when somebody walks in and says the Germans are attacking
14:28And he says, oh, it's just a spoiling attack
14:30They're putting in a spoiling attack as something you do in order to spoil the other fellow's day
14:35In order to put him off his stroke
14:37And so sort of switched off is he
14:39He doesn't return to his own headquarters until p.m. the 17th
14:43That's 24 hours after he's heard the news
14:45But General Eisenhower immediately sees the threat
14:50He wants to send in two armoured divisions
14:53One from the north and one from the south
14:55To attack the flanks of the German advance
14:58The commander in the south is George Patton
15:03A man that Bradley doesn't get on with
15:06They're totally different characters
15:10Patton is this sort of abrasive, flamboyant, blood and guts
15:13Swearing all the time
15:17Two pistols, general
15:20Bradley's rather retiring
15:22Quite religious
15:24A bit of a party pooper, I think you probably described him
15:28He's not the most outgoing of people
15:31And he disapproves of Patton
15:35Bradley doesn't want to start a fight with Patton
15:38And hesitates to call up his troops
15:39But soon he realises that he's on the business end of a devastating German attack
15:47And that he needs all the help he can get
15:50And what's worse, many of his men are laid up in field hospitals
16:03Crippled by a condition brought on by their boots
16:06This is the standard American boot of 1944
16:14Very high, straps around the lower leg
16:18Plenty of laces, good gusset here to stop water getting in
16:22And as a really useful feature
16:25They thought about putting the leather rough side out
16:28Which means that the wax, the dubbing, the waterproofing
16:30And the waterproofing can be absorbed by the leather
16:33Giving a really good barrier against water
16:36The German style boot from 1944
16:39It is more like a standard ankle boot
16:41It's simpler
16:43And it's made in this case of the leather
16:45The way we'd normally expect it
16:47With the shiny side outs
16:49In theory this isn't as good as the American made boot
16:52The question is which actually is going to function better in a test
16:56Only four minutes in
17:14And there's a tell-tale slightly cold feeling
17:19On the inner part of my right foot
17:22And my right foot's in the American boot
17:25I would argue that that right boot
17:29has already got a layer of water in it
17:32A couple of millimetres deep, if not deeper
17:36It's almost like the leather is absorbing the water
17:39And then it's coming out on the inside
17:41It's like blotting paper
17:44And it's getting worse by the second
17:46I think this one would need constant attention
17:51And the one thing you don't have is time in a military situation
17:55The lavish care on your boots
17:59The badly designed American boots lead to a pandemic of trench foot
18:04Among Bradley's troops in the Ardennes
18:07It's the fact that actually combination of cold and water
18:14And water means that your toes, they lose the circulation
18:19And what then happens is that they die
18:22In a really bad case of trench foot
18:24Your feet go numb, take your boots off, take your socks off
18:27And your toes just come away with your socks
18:31With thousands of his men out of action
18:34Bradley's defences are now seriously stretched
18:37And there are even more uncomfortable surprises in store
18:41Some of Bradley's troops are not what they seem
18:51A German commando unit has infiltrated the American positions
18:57Four hundred German soldiers dressed up in US uniforms
19:03Wearing the dog tags of captured or dead American soldiers
19:06They disguise their own tanks with painted plywood
19:13To make them look like American tanks
19:16The phony troops speak English with perfect accents
19:22And sneak behind the American lines with ease
19:25There they change signposts, miss direct traffic
19:29And so even more confusion
19:30You wouldn't have thought that war would be an activity
19:36That would have any rules
19:37But it does
19:39And one of the things that is extremely hazardous
19:45Is if you put on the enemy's uniform
19:48And operate behind his lines
19:50Then you are actually putting yourself up for execution
19:53If you get caught
19:55The German deception is soon detected
19:57Bradley's men capture some of the impostors
20:04When one of the captured German commandos
20:08Claims that their mission is to assassinate generals
20:11The Americans start to panic
20:13And Eisenhower spent the next five or six days
20:16Locked up in his headquarters
20:18At one stage his chief of staff rushed outside
20:21And started spraying the gardens with a machine gun
20:23Because he thought the place was under attack
20:26Um
20:28Bradley travelled around wearing a great coat over his uniform
20:32So no one would recognise him
20:34So it caused, you know, quite a lot of mayhem
20:38Among the American high command
20:43While the fake troops sow confusion among the Americans
20:47One of Modal's most formidable assets is leading the charge
20:50The tip of Modal's sharpest spearhead
20:53The tip of Modal's sharpest spearhead
20:57Is an elite SS Panzer unit of 250 tanks
21:01And 3,500 men
21:03The German army's most battle-hardened and fanatical soldiers
21:07Their job is to bring shock and awe to the enemy
21:11Their leader is a 29 year old SS colonel
21:16The infamous Jochen Piper
21:20Jochen Piper is a fanatical Nazi
21:24A man who will stop at nothing
21:27To achieve his Fiora's orders
21:31His ruthlessness was beyond content
21:35He would have been regarded as a flamboyant, brave, adventurous, successful leader
21:41Who had the sort of spirit that special forces have
21:47And I suspect that to his own subordinates
21:52He was a bit of a hero figure
21:54He was certainly admired by Hitler and other superiors
21:57And not just for his politics
21:59They didn't come into it
22:01What came into it was his success as a soldier
22:04Piper must fight his way through to the river Meuse
22:10Before the weather clears
22:11And the skies fill with allied fighter bombers
22:14Once there, he will have to secure crossings
22:18For the German support troops that follow
22:26On day 2, Piper's tanks reach the village of Malmedie
22:30Here they capture a convoy of retreating Americans
22:37Piper's men round up 113 prisoners
22:40And shoot 88 of them
22:49It cannot be condoned or justified
22:52But I think it can be understood
22:57How could it have happened?
23:01Was it intended as an act of appalling terrorism?
23:05I suspect not
23:08I suspect that it was a ruthless
23:12And at the time casual decision
23:16That it's too difficult
23:18And would delay us too much
23:20To take prisoners
23:22So we went
23:26The news of what the SS have done to the American prisoners
23:32Spreads like wildfire across the battlefield
23:41The ordinary soldier would have heard about it
23:43Because the Americans would have made quite certain that he did
23:46And so if sitting in his foxhole
23:51He's tempted to give in
23:52He might think
23:53Well I don't think I'll give in to these guys
23:55Because they might kill me
23:56I'll go on fighting
23:58The massacre at Malmedie backfires badly on the Germans
24:03It revives the fighting spirit among the American troops
24:08Who now focus all their energy
24:11On a small town in the middle of the Ardennes
24:12The fight for Bastogne is about to become the turning point of the Battle of the Bulge
24:25As Modal's armoured spearheads plow towards the river Meuse
24:30He now has to strengthen his advance
24:33The rest of his forces and their supplies must catch up with the spearheads
24:36But he needs to move this juggernaut through near impenetrable terrain
24:47Particularly in places where you haven't got open fields or desert to drive over
24:52You're constrained by the roads
24:54And in that part of the world in the Ardennes
24:58All roads lead to Bastogne
25:00The town of Bastogne is a hub for seven major roads across the Ardennes
25:07Modal must take this town to move his forces west
25:11The best way to take a town is to bounce it
25:17That is to say to get your guys in up the main road as quickly as possible
25:21And then set up a defensive perimeter before the other guy does
25:24If the other guys in there you're going to have to fight him for it
25:26And you don't want particularly in places like Bastogne where the crucial thing about it
25:32Is that it's the big junction through which all your stuff's going to have to go
25:37You don't want too much destruction
25:39You don't want to flatten the place so that there are immense heaps of rubble
25:44Covering every road
25:46Ideally you want it in one piece
25:48Hugely difficult to achieve
25:51General Bradley has to stop the marauding Germans from taking Bastogne
25:54But he has just a small defence force in town
25:58So he calls up a division of elite paratroopers to reinforce Bastogne
26:04The 101st Airborne
26:07The 101st is one of the greatest divisions in the history of warfare
26:12And they're you know cocky as hell
26:14When they were told you're going to Bastogne
26:17You're going to be cut off
26:19One of them gives the classic answer
26:21So what we're always being cut off
26:22They were used to the idea that being dropped into enemy territory
26:27They were going to have to deal with probably armour and superior numbers by themselves
26:32Until someone came up to relieve them
26:34And so this was part of the game as far as they were concerned
26:37The only problem for Bradley is that the foul weather makes parachuting impossible
26:43So the 101st have to drive nearly 200km in trucks
26:48To buy time for them to reach Bastogne
26:53Bradley sets up roadblocks around the town to hold up the German advance
26:57On the evening of December 17th
27:01Bradley's men dig in and get ready to take on the approaching German tanks
27:07The most feared of all of Hitler's supertanks was without question the Tiger
27:12It inspired a condition amongst the Allies called Tiger-phobia
27:17It had an 88mm gun which could defeat any of our armour at ranges of 2000m
27:30So for our tanks to defeat it at that kind of range was just out of the question
27:34And even if you got close to it the armour around the front was about 100mm thick
27:40So anything you fired at it just wouldn't get through
27:43So how could you beat the Tiger?
27:46American foot soldiers find a way
27:51With the most simple of weapons
27:53A hollow tube that fires a rocket
27:56The bazooka
27:57Explosives engineer Sidney Allford will demonstrate how a small rocket can beat a Tiger tank
28:08He aims a replica of a bazooka warhead at a target made of thick steel blocks
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28:57bazooka是碰tal
29:04the warhead is a shaped charge
29:07a thin copper cone with explosives packed behind it
29:10when they detonate
29:12the cone is blown inside out
29:14and squeezed into a jet of white hot liquid copper
29:22when the rocket hits the target
29:24这一枪砍过了石头像一碗刀的鞋鞋
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29:48the bazooka can penetrate up to eighty millimeters of steel but the front armor of a tiger tank is a whopping one hundred millimeters thick
30:00so how can a bazooka beat a tiger
30:04the only chink in its armor was at the sides where the armor was maybe eighty millimeters thick
30:10and certainly that's where bazookas could get through
30:13so if you couldn't go to the tiger you had to wait for the tiger to come to you
30:23and that meant bazooka teams waiting in position keeping their cool with this monstrous beast bearing down on you
30:31till it was perpendicular and then releasing the shot into the side armor
30:37in one village alone the americans destroy thirty german tanks and kill eight hundred german soldiers
30:47but most importantly bradley's men delay the german advance by two days
30:55the hundred and first airborne make it into town in the nick of time
31:01they set up a formidable defense with tanks anti-tank guns and artillery
31:11bastogne is now an ugly boil on modals operation
31:16his spearheads are running low on fuel
31:18if he can't establish a supply line through bastogne soon
31:22his offensive will grind to a halt
31:25he orders his tanks to surround the town and lance the boil
31:32general bradley urgently needs to find more troops to relieve bastogne
31:38but his only option is politically difficult
31:42the closest troops to the town are those of fiery general patton
31:46whom bradley doesn't want to upset
31:49again it is eisenhower who takes action
31:53paton's whole army over twenty thousand men with all their tanks vehicles and artillery
31:59would have to turn north
32:02and cover nearly two hundred kilometers of extremely difficult terrain
32:06in only two days
32:12then he has to punch through the german lines and establish a supply corridor into bastogne
32:20moving all this kit from there to there in forty eight hours
32:26just the traffic control problem
32:28changing the orders to the military police who are standing on crossroads doing that to these guys
32:33and saying no don't send them that way send them that way
32:36to hundreds of thousands of different people who have got to be told what to do next
32:41but Patton has a key asset that will help him on his charge to bastogne
32:51the sherman tank
32:56it's light it's half as heavy as the tiger it's fast
33:00i mean it goes nearly forty kilometers an hour
33:03and it's really maneuverable
33:09patton is short of train tank crews but luckily the sherman is a cinch to drive
33:16the stick system for the driver is very very straightforward anyone can just get in and drive it
33:21and so he wouldn't have had any problem finding just any old gi to just jump in here and make that journey to bastogne to relieve the town
33:31so off they went through the woods and they were very confident that they could do it in this vehicle
33:41on the 20th of december Patton's army begin their charge
33:52when he asks Patton to ride to bastogne's rescue
33:55eisenhower clearly ignores bradley's opinion
33:58and he does something even worse to his old friend
34:07bradley's headquarters is in luxembourg city south of the bulge cut off from his forces on the northern side
34:16eisenhower decides to hand over command of bradley's northern armies
34:19to the highest ranking allied commander in the area
34:22british general montgomery
34:25a man bradley hates with a vengeance
34:31and bradley gets into rage at that stage
34:33and says i'm going to resign
34:35and and and eisenhower said it's not up to you to resign
34:39it's my decision if anyone does any resigning it'll be me
34:43with montgomery in charge in the north
34:45and Patton leading the relief of bastogne
34:47bradley has effectively been sidelined
34:56bradley was deeply hurt
34:58but his old friend had taken away two of his armies given them to his most hated rival
35:02monte
35:03and left him in charge of the one man who used to give him more grief than any other
35:08i pat
35:09while bradley is sulking in luxembourg things are getting critical in bastogne
35:17the besieged americans are now in serious trouble
35:20they're completely surrounded by german tanks
35:24the temperature has dropped to minus twelve degrees
35:27and they're running out of ammunition
35:29the artillery has to stop firing to save its last few shells
35:33the americans are staring defeat in the face
35:48on the 22nd of december the germans approach bastogne with an ultimatum
35:54unless the americans surrender the germans will flatten the town with all civilians in it
35:59but the commander of the hundred and first airborne general antony mcauliffe calls their bluff
36:09and mcauliffe actually turned to his chief of operations who was a lieutenant colonel
36:15and said what shall i say
36:18and so this chap said well why don't you say what you usually say when you disagree with something
36:23so what's that he said you usually say nuts
36:24as day six draws to a close the exhausted defenders of bastogne fear an all-out attack by the german tanks the next day
36:42food is low and so is ammunition
36:46general patton's rescue mission has run into heavy enemy defenses and ground to a halt
36:51now the germans have a real chance to break through
36:58but as a new day dawns on the 23rd of december fortunes are reversed
37:06the skies have cleared
37:10now the allies can finally exploit their air superiority
37:13us fighter bombers rake the german positions and tear through their hardware
37:25and the americans can finally parachute supplies into the besieged town
37:31among the crates of ammunition is a devastating secret weapon
37:34that rains fire down on the german attackers
37:46it's an artillery shell that has a radar sensor called a proximity fuse
37:50this fuse can detect when the shell is about to hit the ground
37:55and detonate it while it is still in the air
37:57explosives engineer sydney allford
37:59demonstrates why this gives the american defenders the edge over the advancing germans
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40:46他們卻移民的建設 用符的鑽 拆穩 和奮沈壓縮 他們的建設設計會墓
40:51他們的建設設計會有更多的負面 他們的建設計會比較難用力
40:56那一段視頻會到達成的 最初的美國人是建設計 攻擊
41:03的戰士 他們卻不得了強力的戰士
41:10Model realizes that without Bastogne, his chances of reaching Antwerp are slim.
41:19He now toys with the idea of reverting to the plan he failed to sell to Hitler.
41:27If he abandons the big offensive and stays east of the River Meuse, he can trap the
41:31American forces there and deal a crushing blow to the Allied war effort.
41:41And what's more,Model's men might live to fight another day and defend their fatherland.Model
41:49tries his idea on Hitler, but the Führer insists that Bastogne be taken and that German soldiers
41:57fight where they stand.
42:01On Christmas Day,Model carries out the order.
42:05His troops throw everything they have at the Americans.
42:15The desperate German attacks on Bastogne meet fierce resistance.
42:20The American defenders repel Model's troops again and again.
42:27Hitler's obsession with Bastogne costs Model dearly.
42:31The focus on Bastogne, of course, has a dramatic effect on other units which have got further
42:40towards the eventual target of the Mares river crossings, like Piper's group, for instance,
42:45who suddenly find that all the resources being concentrated on Bastogne means supplies aren't
42:52through to them.
42:53Reinforcements aren't getting through to them.
42:56And that means that the successful deep attacks are grinding to a halt, not just because the
43:04logistics are stretched, but because the resources are being poured into the fight for Bastogne.
43:10Colonel Piper's tanks run out of fuel only five kilometers from his objective.
43:19He's forced to abandon them and retreat on foot.
43:23And to make things even worse for Model, on December 26, Patton's third army finally reaches Bastogne and opens a supply line into town.
43:37For Model, Bastogne is now lost forever.
43:46The offensive is over.
43:52I think for Model, the most difficult moment of all comes when he has to tell Hitler that
43:57they cannot go on.
43:59It must have been incredibly difficult.
44:01It was an admission of failure which had earned lesser men the death penalty.
44:07And it marked the absolute turning point in his relationship with the Führer, for whom he had always been a success in the past.
44:14And I think that must have been in every way extremely difficult for him.
44:21But Hitler finally sees sense and allows Model to retreat.
44:31Now the initiative is back with the Allies.
44:35They can finally start putting pressure on the German bulge and push it back towards the Rhine.
44:42But even in defeat, Model's army is still dangerous.
44:49And their ability to shield each move and move back in contact, always ready to counterattack, is rather like a boxer drawing his opponent in, going backwards, waiting for the best moment to counterpunch, raining blows all the way as they give ground.
45:15And Model was an acknowledged master of this.
45:21If Bradley thought it was game over for Model, he couldn't have been more wrong.
45:27The Americans lose more men chasing after the retreating Germans than in the initial attack.
45:34We constantly forgot how formidable the German army could be.
45:39However much damage they'd taken, they had this ability to bounce back.
45:44If you touched the Germans in an area which was important to them, their reaction was swift
45:48and violent and bloody, and you paid the price.
45:54But despite all Model's best efforts, on January 16th, 1945, his troops find themselves back where they started one month earlier.
46:10Hitler's grandiose plan to divide and conquer the Allied invaders is the last battle cry of the Third Reich.
46:19His gamble costs him over 100,000 soldiers, destroys the cream of German armour, and leaves Germany almost undefended.
46:31For Model, there is no consolation.
46:35On the 21st of April, 1945, he takes his own life.
46:43Omar Bradley returns to America a hero, celebrated as the winner of the biggest battle the US Army has ever fought.
46:52But it's a triumph that leaves a bitter taste.
46:58Bradley has lost over 80,000 soldiers.
47:05And much of the credit for the victory belongs to his rivals.
47:10ından 나� Hasysi'i were visible in Mr. Viper.
47:13St
47:26もたしてすべきの敵を支えている consegueいますから な bis Likeン武器いきます。
47:28ersi'i被害者は自分は、小さ bez facing到 ELの方でも、使い戦いか操らせますよ。
47:32strong focus of apprendreが大麻雄を受ける必要があるで、
47:33私たちが到来、分 Essa定がG Crit機の保護を追加することを次々に普段使用することがいいです。
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