‘Battle of the Bulge’ is an American classic war movie it was made in Spain and hit the screens in 1965 The starring cast included Charles Bronson The world premiere of the movie was in Hollywood was the 21st anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge The producers tried to condense a month long battle into three hours The battle extended across sections of Germany Some of the landmarks that were used for the film did not even resemble locations where the actual battle took place This left the filmmakers open to criticism for historical inaccuracies even though they maintained that they had “re-arranged” the sequential order of events in the movie credits to amplify the remarkable story for the moviegoers Most World War II sagas contain depictions of real senior Allied leaders the ‘Battle of the Bulge’ contains virtually none this is because of the disagreements about the battle itself during and after the war an imaginary German soldier presumed to be based on SS – Standartenführer Jochen Peiper and General Kohler (Werner Peters) are talking about the allocated time for an attack on the Allies Kohler shows him a clock that is counting down from 50 hours Hessler is told that if victory is not in their hands by this time the Nazi troops will run out of supplies and have to pull back Nazi troops disguised as American soldiers are tasked with capturing strategic bridges and causing chaos behind enemy lines where he alerts Allied Command that the Nazis are preparing to launch another all-out offensive All of the available intelligence indicates that the Germans don’t have the manpower or the resources to launch another full-scale attack Kiley visits a US infantry stronghold on a captured portion of the Siegfried Line under the command of Maj Some very inexperienced and young Nazi soldiers were captured during a patrol led by Sgt Kiley draws the conclusion that the experienced German troops have been replaced by these young soldiers while the experienced Nazi troops had been gathered for the offensive that Kiley was certain about Wolenski and his infantrymen head into the wooded area of the Schnee Eifel where an intense fire-fight ensues; they try to fight them off but the German assault is too strong and Woleski and his men are overrun Guffy (Telly Savalas) is attempting to slow the Panzer Division but Guffy’s tanks’ inadequate guns and thin armor make their defensive effort futile capture the only bridge capable of supporting heavy tanks over the Our River Hessler maintains his spearhead moving toward Ambleve Schumacher and his men take control of a crucial junction connecting the Siegfried Line take the wrong road to Malmedy; nearly the entire unit is massacred The US troops become suspicious when they observe Schumacher’s “military police” incorrectly placing munitions on the Our bridge Hessler’s Panzer Division and the Nazi infantry attack Ambleve and the town finally falls into German hands and others find an escape route to the River Meuse American forces regroup and begin plans for a counterattack Kiley conducts an aerial scouting mission in an effort to find the main German front In an attempt to listen for the German tanks he instructs the pilot to shut off the engine and glide over the enemy area he sees Hessler’s tank column advancing on American lines but his plane is shot down by German artillery and Kiley crashes near an American fuel depot The heavier guns and stronger armor of the Panzer tanks methodically destroyed the American tanks Most of the surviving American tanks and their crews Hessler decided to take a detachment to the fuel depot to capture its inventory Upon arrival at the fuel depot Weaver instantly recognizes Lt who is still impersonating an American MP and his men have seized command of the fuel depot the masquerading Nazis are fired upon and are all killed The US defenders saturate the road with gasoline and set it afire The remaining German forces concede defeat and retreat all the way to Germany The tank battle mentioned above is a vague representation of the Battle of Celles fought on December 26 where the German 2nd Panzer Division was defeated by the U.S The movie creates the untrue impression that great numbers of American tanks were destroyed by the heavy Tiger IIs and in the process decoyed the enemy off course so they would run out of gas Even the tanks used in the film are not historically accurate (despite the claims of the producer in an interview) The tank used in most of the scenes was the M24 Chaffee light tank they were not in use in the numbers that were seen in the movie The American M47 Patton in the film that represented the German Tiger tanks expressed the superior size and firepower which the M4 Sherman tanks had to contend with depicted by the aforementioned M24 Chaffees Apart from the early American confrontations with the German assault there is also the absence of the actual weather conditions in which the real battle was fought such as cold weather and snow; there is no trace of snow at all in the major tank battle scene Other inaccuracies were that some battle scenes that were fought in the flat and bare territory; taking into consideration the mountainous The film was actually shot on location in Madrid Spain and the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range of the Iberian peninsula Schumacher and his men were based on Operation Greif the Nazi plan to parachute English-speaking Germans using American equipment behind American lines to capture bridges and to spread confusion in the enemy lines Absent from this film is the attack by Gen whose Third Army alleviated the siege of Bastogne Although British troops had a smaller part in the battle than the Americans in the movie there is absolutely no reference to British forces in the area Eisenhower ceding temporary command of two American armies to British Field Marshal Montgomery in the northern half of the Bulge This decision was made to split the Bulge into two fronts; the film implies a completely American offensive The movie also made no mention of the role the Allied air power had as they hit the Germans forces hard when the weather cleared does mention both Montgomery and Patton in the beginning saying: “In the south was Patton’s Third Army Montgomery’s command was actually the 21st Army Group was actually in Italy during the Battle of the Bulge Patton was in charge of the Third Army during the battle it was one of four American armies that constituted the 12th Army Group under Gen Patton’s Third Army in the south was only part of a much larger American force The film does realistically capture some major aspects of the battle representing how inexperienced American replacement troops positioned in the Ardennes were initially overpowered and how confused the situation was It refers to the dominance of the German heavy tanks along with their primary weakness; a lack of fuel which showed briefings among German officers accurately portray the Third Reich’s desperate need to cut the U.S – British supply lines and to nullify the Allies’ huge logistical superiority the Spanish Army supplied approximately 500 fully equipped soldiers and 75 tanks and armored vehicles Although former President Eisenhower was retired he denounced the film at a press conference for what he considered such a gross historical inaccuracy the film was one of the most popular movies at the British box office Huge fan of war history and rural history and a motorbike rider facebook.com/jack.beckett.73 instagram.com/history_bloke_on_a_bike/ linkedin.com/in/jack-beckett-56a76520/ When the Battle of the Bulge raged across Belgium and Luxembourg in late 1944 and early 1945 it scarred a beautiful landscape and forever changed the people who lived there During the seven decades that have passed since then the ghosts of the fallen have haunted those forests leaving powerful memories that remain fresh to this day The fighting that unfolded there during 45 days of combat has not been forgotten despite the fact that fields are harvested The many memorials that dot the 1,250 square miles/804,360 acres of this battlefield are reminders of its violent past grocery stores and fast food restaurants adjacent to sites where young American and German soldiers shivered in the deep cold but you will also find museums that present their stories to the 21st century Those museums combine individual accounts with big-picture context in compelling ways for both specialists and those learning about the battle for the first time the Ardennes is a unique place of pilgrimage you can walk in the footsteps of American fighting men who battled their way across frozen ground in the bleak mid-winter against a vicious enemy who still had lots of fight left in him For anyone interested particularly in the firearms used during the Battle of the Bulge a handful of museums located in Luxembourg and Belgium display artifacts that you will never see anywhere else Because this epic battle rolled across countryside inhabited by civilians pistols and machine guns left behind afterward were occasionally deposited in barns and tool sheds creating a sort of time capsule of the winter of 1944-1945 One such museum is the relatively new Baugnez '44 Historical Center in southern Belgium which houses outstanding displays featuring firearms and the accessories that go with them an MP40 and every variation of magazine pouch the Germans made for them an MG34 sits on its maschinengewehrlafette recoil buffered mounting system in a glass case that allows you to see both sides of the machine gun A video monitor above the display plays a German MG34 training film that demonstrates the proper methods for loading changing barrels and clearing stuck cartridge cases but few are as engaging or evocative as this one Click here for a "Guns of the Battle of the Bulge" Photo Gallery. Every year, millions of tourists travel to other countries just to drink wine, taste regional cuisine, or experience the local music scene. Firearm enthusiasts and collectors travel abroad, too, and as long as that is the case, the museums dedicated to the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and Luxembourg represent a fulfilling destination. Long respected for its world-leading military small arms, Heckler & Koch, through its American factory and engineers, has taken the pulse of U.S. shooters—and the new Concealed Carry 9 mm Luger micro pistol is poised to quicken it. Read today's "The Armed Citizen" entry for real stories of law-abiding citizens, past and present, who used their firearms to save lives. Despite a slight decline in demand for new firearms, the industry’s economic impact rose from $90.5 billion in 2023 to $91.7 billion in 2024. 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