From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Mon Dec 26 2005 - 22:01:27 PST
December 26
1944 Patton relieves Bastogne
On this day, General George S. Patton employs an audacious strategy to
relieve the besieged Allied defenders of Bastogne, Belgium, during the
brutal Battle of the Bulge.
German assaults threatened the Americans' ability to hold out. Nevertheless,
Brigadier General Anthony C. MacAuliffe met a German surrender demand with a
typewritten response of a single word: "Nuts."
Enter "Old Blood and Guts," General Patton. Employing a complex and
quick-witted strategy wherein he literally wheeled his 3rd Army a sharp 90
degrees in a counterthrust movement, Patton broke through the German lines
and entered Bastogne, relieving the valiant defenders and ultimately pushing
the Germans east across the Rhine.
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