When The Trumpets Fade Remix

When The Trumpets Fade.This Movie.Takes Place During The Battle Of Hurtgen Forest.A Tribute to the Fallen Soldiers.The Battle Of Hurtgen Forest.There are stories that may need a half century or more to age before being told, giving memories and bitterness a chance to fade and giving those involved, time to have passed into history. The story of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest is one of those stories. Please read it, not for enjoyment, but as an honor to those whose sufferings were never properly recognized and whose remarkable accomplishments never celebrated.The Hurtgen Forest, covering roughly fifty square miles just south of ancient city of Aachen along the German-Belgium border, was described by those who were there, as a "weird and wild" place. Here "the near one hundred feet tall dark pine trees and dense tree-tops gave the place, even in daytime , a somber appearance which was apt to cast gloom upon sensitive people." It was like a green cave, always dripping water, the firs interlocked their lower limbs so that everyone had to stoop, all the time. The forest floor, in almost perpetual darkness, was devoid of underbrush. Add to this gloom, a mixture of sleet, snow, rain, cold, fog and almost knee deep mud. This was to be setting for the most tragic battle of World War II.they had no choice but to hold out and die in hopeless resignation. Oddly enough, one-half of the Americans who fought here had German - American ancestry which meant that three quarters of all the combatants in the Hurtgen Forest were either German or of German origin." At first light, he shouted, "Let's go get the bastards!," and firing from the hip, he led the Rangers as they charged. Sgt. Bud Potratz remembered hollering "Hi ho, Silver!" It was worse than D-Day but the Rangers had caught the Germans by surprise When Sgt. Petty reached the top of the hill, he "found a situation of turmoil." With another Ranger named Anderson, he approached the main bunker and heard Germans inside. They pushed open the door and tossed in two grenades. Just as they were ready to rush in and spray the room with their BAR, a shell exploded a few feet away -- the Germans were firing back on their own positions. The Germans were not going to give up the hill no matter what the cost. By 9:30, the first of five counterattacks that day began. They used machine guns, burp guns, rifles, and three potato masher grenades. Hand-to-hand fights developed on top of the hill often with bayonets.we were outnumbered ten to one. We had no protection, continuous tons of shrapnel falling upon us, hundreds of rounds coming in.His few remaining men rallied to the cause and together they drove the Germans back down the hill." Lomell was a legend among the Rangers for what he did on D-Day, but in 1995 he commented, "June 6, 1944 was not my longest day. December 7th, 1944 was my longest and most miserable day on earth.The Rangers had suffered 90 percent casualties and once again would have to be replenished with very few of the originals alive . The battle had lasted ninety days and involved nine American Divisions and their supporting units. More than 24,000 Americans lost their lives and there were another 9,000 casualties from trench foot, disease and combat exhaustion. So ended the battle for the Hurtgen Forest.Music by Apocalptica

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[anoka78]

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[anoka78]

lol o y am i wroung

[MrChatItOut]

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''SAVING MY PRIVATES"  (2011 - tom hanks)

a MUST see video. you need a good stomach - added yesterday

[ArmyRanger871]

whats the name of the song at the end?

[01tnql]

Shtill vaiting for ze name of ze song!!!

[mbilyk1]

so, tell me the truth, I'am all ears !! Today's reservist's enjoy the money, hey now I gotta fight and die, ya that's what a soldier does.

[mbilyk1]

so, tell me the truth, I'am all ears !!

[01tnql]

whats the name of the song at the beginning?

[snoopy3600]

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[Robbi159]

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