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Armour Meets the Sky: How Grit and Airpower Grounded the SS Panzer Strike at Bastogne

On December 30, 1944, amid dense fog and chaos in the Ardennes, elite SS Panzer units launched one of their last big pushes ...
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SS Panzer Group Piper Decisive Battles Behind Enemy Lines, December 1944

In December 1944, SS Major Yoakim Piper led his armored Panzer group through relentless Soviet defenses, executing daring night assaults, capturing strategic villages, and seizing critical supply ...