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Old 04-21-09, 07:31 PM   #33
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I believe the Hurtgen Forest slugfest was overshadowed by the more famous Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge) to the south in Belgium. I'm gonna guess that the Germans made defensive use of the forest by priming their shells to achieve a treeburst scattering splinters about like so much shrapnel.
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