The Crucial Stand: How the US Defense at St. Vith Turned the Tide in the Battle of the Bulge
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The Battle of St. Vith was a World War II battle between the United States and Germany near the Belgian town of St. Vith.
The German attack on St. Vith occurred during the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge as part of the northern German push towards Antwerp.
St. Vith, though a small town only twelve miles from the German frontline at the start of the campaign was the hub of six paved roads that ran around the Schnee Eifel region, a heavily wooded ridgeline that served as a barrier in the campaign.
Beginning on December 16, 1944, the first day of the Battle of the Bulge, the battle for St. Vith lasted six days ending with a German victory on December 21.
Though the town was secured, the number of troops tied down and delayed had effectively killed the momentum of German advances across the frontline.
The fighting around St. Vith had proven to be extremely decisive, disrupting the German timetable, allowing the Allies to regroup and ultimately contributing to the end of the Battle of the Bulge.
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Dad was with an 81mm mortar crew with the 48AIB 7thAD. He said the fighting around St. Vith was horrific and the 23rd of December was extremely bad.
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Professional class A research project. Special thanks to the veteran soldiers/civilians resistance groups. Sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often times possible. Yet still advanced forward regardless of the consequences. That's true grit style determination to succeed. A shout out to the medical 🚑 personal. Doctors/nurses/medics/stretcher bearers. Risking life and limb tending to the wounded soldiers.
Nice, the fortified goose egg should be discussed more, 7 days with the 7 armored div, one regiment of the 106, 1 regiment of 28 division and cca ninth armored div withheld 5 panzer armee including the 1 and 2 SS and a entire brigade of king tigers and volksgrenadier units and without this the Germans may or would have got Antwerp.
My uncle was there with the 7 armored as the 814 tank destroyer battalion in ccb which received the presidential citation for the defense of this important town.
Why is it that someone always mentions that one of their family members served in the war in every war video?
@@benedictjajo Because they were! My father-in-law was a member of the 81st Engineer Combat Battalion (ECB) of the US Army's 106th Division. He was part of a hastily assembled group of engineers from the 81st and 168th ECBs under the command of Lt. Col. Thomas Riggs, CO of the 81st, and this scratch force of 20-year-old GIs with no prior combat experience, about 350 men, held the junction of two major roads into St. Vith for several days against the Fifth Panzer Army, part of the overall delaying action at St. Vith that ruined the German timetable for a rapid breakthrough at the central point of German attack. Those engineers earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for their gallant defense. I can say that my relative helped fuck up Adolf Hitler! Hope you're not jealous.
@@dwyerjones4542 why would I be jealous? I hope you're not jealous that we weren't part of such a petty conflict
@@benedictjajo People whose ancestors fought in certain battles will seek out more information about those battles. Why would you have a problem with that?
@@benedictjajo part of the friggin Holocaust happened during this battle. Do you consider mass murder to be petty? If so it says a lot about your character, or lack thereof.
It was a tactical defeat that delayed the Germans
Yep, too many people chalk up Allied victories and German defeats to material differences. The German defeat in the Ardennes was ultimately owed to tactical delays and losses that occurred in the first week of the battle.
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My dad was there with the 7th Armored Division.
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the vidéo are nice and u'r accent not too arsh to understand for frenchy like me so carry on 😁
The clash with the armoured car and the tiger was actually a tiger 2
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Remember st vith is pronounced something like saw vee. Not saint vith in English.
SAN VEE is the pronunciation. The town is named after Saint Vitus.
Not named after the dance?
I live in St. Vith. The germanofhone people here call it Sankt Vith. The a like the english after. Not the American pronounciation. And Vith is said as FIT. The francophone people here pronounce it like Saint, like Saint Louis, and Vith like FEET. Everything here is in German, also like on the police cars: Polizei. Because this part belonged to the German Reich several times.
Dad fought there and called it St. 'Vith'. That is good enough for me.
That'd be MOdal...It's very German
Not at St Vith . Bastogne was crucial, not St Vith !
Both were important because they controlled roads that the Germans needed to use in their advance, which was tied to an ambitious timetable. No roads = no advance = failure. Not only that, but the delays gave the Americans time to assess the situation accurately and reinforce where it was needed.
They had to withdraw to avoid being surrounded and cut off, but by then a strong force had been assembled to stop the German advance. Tactical defeat, strategic victory.
No. St. Vith was more important as it was in the direction of Antwerp which was the goal of the Germans.
Had the German's goal been Paris, Bastogne would have been the primary focus.
@@kabobmeinhaddi5591 I think I'd agree that St Vith was more important overall because as you say, it blocked the route to Antwerp & hence their main goal, but the Germans failing to take Bastogne & its important road hub seriously hampered their ability to secure their southern flank - a serious problem considering that Patton's Third Army was nearby.
@@Kevin-mx1vi Agreed. I have no idea why the Germans did not simply bypass Bastogne after pretty much having surrounded it.
If they had done that, things would have probably become more complicated for the allies.
Either way, the allies would have eventually started chopping up on the flanks.
@@kabobmeinhaddi5591 They DID bypass Bastogne, but they had to use lesser roads than those that ran through the town and were not really up to the job of carrying the forces necessary to properly protect their southern (left) flank. This slowed their progress, making the flank weaker than they planned & vulnerable to a thrust by Patton.
I'm sure that the failed thrust toward Coutances that was intended to split the allies but which resulted in the debacle of the Falais Pocket was high in the minds of the German generals on the ground, and that there was the potential for a similar disaster with their thrust toward Antwerp - The more they advanced, the more a strong southern flank was needed to counter the risk of encirclement. Bastogne and the roads it commanded held the key to having a strong left flank.
Poor pronunciation of names, its pronounced San Vite. Schney Eiffel etc but a good effort. A map of troop dispositions around the town would be useful.
@Will he heck as like You don't understand the impact of Lend Lease if you think Germany wouldn't have won WWII without the intervention of America.
"bUt MuH sOvIeTs" Again, Lend-Lease. The boots that marched into Berlin on Soviet soldiers' feet were literally made in America. All of Europe would have fallen without the tens of millions of TONS of American supplies. If you aren't willing or capable of understanding that, there's no point in talking to you.
@Will he heck as like I'm pretty sure it's a robot/computer generated voice.
Schnee Eifel with 1 F. He pronounces St. Vith good. I live there.
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