Dear Forum members,
As most of you will know we are approaching the 70th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge/Ardennenenoffensive.
To mark this event my local tourist association decided to set up some walks where the battle opened. Namely where the 277th Volks grenadier Divsion attacked the US 99th Inf. Div at 05:30 on December 16 1944. This is the so called Hollerather Knie on what is now the B265 and was then called the International Highway by the US forces. See this link for one website; http://hollerath.com/ here for the press coverage; http://www.rundschau-online.de/eifel...,29313914.html
The Hotel Hollerather Hof have a small militaria exhhibition, and other local facilities do too.
On Monday the 15th at the Hotel Schroeder at Loesheimergraben there will be a talk on the Air War over the Bulge, plus a session from the authority that licence use of metal detectors in the area. Sadly I cannot go as I have a business trip to Austria
Finally tomorrow there will be a US Army colour party laying wreaths at local memorials in the Belgian Ardenne.
David
As most of you will know we are approaching the 70th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Bulge/Ardennenenoffensive.
To mark this event my local tourist association decided to set up some walks where the battle opened. Namely where the 277th Volks grenadier Divsion attacked the US 99th Inf. Div at 05:30 on December 16 1944. This is the so called Hollerather Knie on what is now the B265 and was then called the International Highway by the US forces. See this link for one website; http://hollerath.com/ here for the press coverage; http://www.rundschau-online.de/eifel...,29313914.html
The Hotel Hollerather Hof have a small militaria exhhibition, and other local facilities do too.
On Monday the 15th at the Hotel Schroeder at Loesheimergraben there will be a talk on the Air War over the Bulge, plus a session from the authority that licence use of metal detectors in the area. Sadly I cannot go as I have a business trip to Austria
Finally tomorrow there will be a US Army colour party laying wreaths at local memorials in the Belgian Ardenne.
David
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