BATTLE OF THE BULGE

BY: JOHNATHON DOLLAR AND

JACOB CROW

Hitlers plans

• His plans were to push back the Allies army and gain some of France's territory back from the Allies

The Bulge

• The Bulge was a 40 mile wide and 60 mile deep bulge made by American lines - territory gained after the D-Day Invasion - into French and Belgian territory formerly controlled by Germany

Events

• German commander, Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt gathered more then 1,200 tanks and 200,000 men to push Allied soldiers back

Out come

• In the end the German forces lost to the Allies and the total count for the German forces lost was impossible to determine

CITATIONS

• John Whiteclay Chambers II. "Bulge, Battle of the." The Oxford Companion to American Military History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 18 Sep. 2015 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.