Battle for the Hurtgen!

One of the lesser known battles in the ETO in the fall of 1944.

[@Phantom70702]

Thanks for making this video, couldn’t see this video earlier, I was in encampment training. But thanks for making this video

[@onepingonly1941]

Certainly! I was really happy to find all the still pics and the newsreel footage of the battle.

[@patrickt6642]

Got one to recommend.janice holt giles wrote book based on her husbands letters and diary.he was combat enigeneer in eto

[@onepingonly1941]

Wow that's different. It appears to be seriously out of print but I've got it on my Goodreads list and and I'll hunt for it. Thanks for the rec!

[@davidsigler9690]

Must admit the only book I have read on the Battle of the Huertgen is Charles b. MacDonald; been a long time since I read it....obviously need more books on the subject....by the way, the author J. D. Salinger was at Huertgen....the only Neillands book I have is his history of the "Eigth Army"....have not read that yet.....

[@onepingonly1941]

It's been forever since I read Company Commander but I was thinking that was just in the Bulge. Is my memory wrong on that?

[@davidsigler9690]

@@onepingonly1941 It is a MacDonald book...Battle of the Bulge Memior....he also wrote "A Time For Trumpets; The Untold Story Of The Battle Of The Bulge."....

[@onepingonly1941]

@@davidsigler9690 Ok I found it. Battle of the Hurtgen F. I think I've looked at it b4 but man his writing is really a brick wall for me to get through. Just really can't handle after action reports as narrative voice. He was the official Army historian of the European campaign, too, which means more of the same tone.

[@onepingonly1941]

J. D. Salinger, huh? Wow, so many well known authors, celebrities and politicians were in the war it's hard to know of them all.

[@davidsigler9690]

@@onepingonly1941 I'm reading a bio of him and found it interesting.....he is one of those authors I find more interesting than what he wrote....he didn't like talking much about the Huertgen.