The nature of the ground along which the Americans would attempt to defend the myriad headquarters and service installations, railheads, and depots, must be explained. General Hodges' First Army headquarters, set up in the déclassé resort hotels and casinos of the once fashionable watering place, was remote from sound of battle on the morning of 16 December, but in a matter of hours the slashing thrust of the 1st SS Panzer Division roughly altered its ordered existence. Verviers, an important and densely stocked railhead lay eleven miles north of Spa. Liège, twenty miles northwest of Spa, was one of the greatest American supply centers on the Continent. At Spa, which had served the German Emperor as headquarters in World War I, the First Army had established its command post surrounded on every side by service installations, supply dumps, and depots. Behind them, roughly in the triangle formed by the cities of Liège, Verviers, and Spa, lay the supply installations built up through the autumn to support the advance toward the Rhine. Army command on 16 December were deployed north of the Belgian Ardennes. The bulk of the fourteen divisions under First U.S.
The 1st SS Panzer Division's Dash Westward, Many say that the King Tiger is the ultimate development of German tank technology, but it arrived much too late to help Germany out in the war, and whilst an impressive vehicle in many ways, it was so technologically advanced that a struggling Germany was never going to be able to change the war for Germany, no matter how good it was.The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge (Chapter 11) Chapter XI
The tank had a few names, but it was first brought into service in 1944 and only lasted one year, as the war was over by 1945. They already had the Tiger I, but how could they make this fearsome tank even more potent?The Henschel & Son company soon came up with the Tiger II, or King Tiger. There were also wonder weapons such as the V1 and V2 rockets, but another area Germany looked to for upgrading was in its armored division. It started to develop some rather crazy weapons and military vehicles, such as the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter. As the Second World War got into its final couple of years, Germany really started to push the boundaries of what was possible in the military world.
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