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| 1944 | Brandenberger, Hasso von |  |
| 16th Dec Ardennes 1st day of operations to split the Allies & cut off their supplies |
| 1944 | Dietrich, Sepp | |
| 16th Dec Ardennes 1st day of operations to split the Allies & cut off their supplies |
| 1944 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| 23rd Jan Ardennes Despite initial gains 77,000 Allies & 130,000 Germans are lost |
| 23rd Jan Ardennes Hitler's last powerful reserve, the panzer elite, are lost |
| 16th Dec Ardennes 16 Dec-28 Jan, Hitler's "watch on the Rhine" |
| 16th Dec Ardennes An offensive orderred by Hitler to split the British & Americans & drive for Antwerp |
| 27th Dec Ardennes Orders the "small solution", but the battle is lost & the Germans retreat into Germany |
| 1944 | Manteuffel, Hasso von | |
| 16th Dec Ardennes First day of operations to split the Allies & cut off from their supplies |
| 26th Dec Ardennes Patton breaks through Manteuffel's forces & reaches Bastogne |
| 26th Dec Ardennes The Allies pound German trains west of St-Vith |
| 1944 | Model, Otto Moritz Walter | |
| 2nd Dec Berlin At a conference Model presses for the "small solution", Hitler refuses |
| 16th Dec Ardennes Ordered by Hitler, Model prefers just to take out the USAsalient at Aachen |
| 16th Dec Ardennes The closest the Germans get to Antwerp is Dinant, well to the east of the Maas |
| 27th Dec Ardennes Hitler orders the "small solution", the battle is lost & Germans retreat into Germany |
| 1944 | Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf von | |
| Ardennes Fails to halt the Allied advance into Germany |
| Ardennes The last important counter-attack of the war against the Allies |
| 16th Dec Ardennes 16 Dec-28 Jan, a final offensive in the Ardennes 3 German armies attack 4 USAdivisions |
| 16th Dec Ardennes The Germans advance 50 miles, the Bulge |
| 1945 | Model, Otto Moritz Walter | |
| 15th Jan Ardennes Final day of the Battle of the Bulge, gives way to the Allied advance |
