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WWII Battle of Hürtgen video-Lego; Warning-Graphic content!!
Topic Started: Dec 4 2010, 11:40 PM (173 Views)
tehReal~ChaZZZy
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This is pretty cool.
WWII Battle with Lego blocks.
Eddy especially should appreciate it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV9n77T46CY

Battle of Hürtgen ForestFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Battle of Hürtgen Forest

Date September 19, 1944 – February 10, 1945

Location 50°42′31″N 6°21′46″ECoordinates: 50°42′31″N 6°21′46″E

German-Belgian border

Result Inconclusive until 16 December and succeeded by the Battle of the Bulge
Allied victory after resurgence of the fighting in February 1945.



The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) is the name given to the series of fierce battles fought between U.S. and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest, which became the longest battle on German ground during World War II, and the longest single battle the U.S. Army has ever fought in its history.[4] The battles took place between September 14, 1944, and February 10, 1945, over barely 50 mi² (129 km²), east of the Belgian–German border.

The U.S. commanders’ initial goal was to pin down German forces in the area to keep them from reinforcing the front lines further north in the Battle of Aachen, where the Allies were fighting a trench war between a network of fortified towns and villages connected with field fortifications, tank traps, and minefields. A secondary objective may have been to outflank the front line. The Americans' initial objectives were to take Schmidt, clear Monschau, and advance to the Rur River. Walter Model intended to bring the Allied thrust to a standstill. While he interfered less in the day-to-day movements of units than at Arnhem, he still kept himself fully informed on the situation, slowing the Allies' progress, inflicting heavy casualties and taking full advantage of the fortifications of the Germans called the Westwall, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line.

The Hürtgen Forest cost the U.S. First Army at least 33,000 killed and incapacitated, including both combat and noncombat losses; Germans casualties were 28,000. Aachen eventually fell on October 22, again at high cost to the U.S. Ninth Army. The Ninth Army's push to the Rur fared no better, and did not manage to cross the river or wrest control of its dams from the Germans. Hürtgen was so costly that it has been called an Allied "defeat of the first magnitude", with specific credit being assigned to Model.[5][6]:391

The Germans fiercely defended the area for two reasons: it served as a staging area for the Ardennes Offensive (what became the Battle of the Bulge) that was already in preparation, and the mountains commanded access to the Schwammenauel Dam[7] at the head of the Rur Lake (Rurstausee) which, if opened, would flood low-lying areas downstream and deny any crossing of the river. The Allies only recognized this after several heavy setbacks, and the Germans were able to hold the region until they launched their final major, last-ditch offensive on the Western Front, into the Ardennes.
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Interesting project, photography's nice for YouTube, but the story is terrible and voice acting is worse, except the stolen German bits, which are half-decent :lol:
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