Squeezing Peiper's Bulge WTO (id:#59352)

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Ambleve Valley, Belgium 1944-12-20 (38 others)

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See Misc file below under User Files for CG rules. . . After the breakthrough of Kampfgruppe Peiper on the 18th December, Peiper sought to find an exit from the Ambleve Valley. Peiper had seized the bridges at Stavelot and Cheneux, but had been rebuffed at Trois-Ponts and Habiemont. After these setbacks, the Kampfgruppe attempted another armoured breakthrough at Stoumont on the 19th. Seizing the village after a battle of several hours, Peiper failed to breakthrough the American lines due to a disciplined retrograde action by 2 tank platoons under Lt. Macht of Company C, 743rd Tank Battalion, and the timely arrival of Company C, 1/119th Infantry. Thwarted at Stoumont, and now cut off from his supplies by the recapture of Stavelot, Peiper had reached his high water mark. It now fell to the American forces to squeeze the bulge Peiper had created. On the morning of the 20th, several probing attacks were mounted, including an armoured probe by Task Force Jordan from Theux, a reconnaissance of Cheneux by scouts of the 504th Parachute Infantry, and the occupation of Borgoumont by Company K. 3/117th Infantry supported by 2nd Platoon, Company A. 743rd Tank Battalion. On the afternoon of the 20th, the American attacks began in earnest.

Defender: German (SS) (SS Panzer Regiment 1 and SS PanzerGrenadier Regiment/Battalion II, SS PanzerGrenadier Regt. 2 and FlaKSturm Abteilung 84/Kampfgruppe Peiper)  

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