The powerful German counteroffensive oper-ation code-named "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine) Launched against the American First Army in the early morning hours of December 16, 1944, would result in the greatest single extended land battle of World War II. To most Americans, the fierce series of battles fought in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg from December 1944 through January 1945 is better known as the "Battle of the Bulge." Almost one million soldiers would eventually take part in the fighting. At its high point, the German offensive operation would create a crescent-shaped "bulge," 60 miles deep by 80 miles wide, behind American lines. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill would slate in the House of Commons on January 18, 1945, that the Battle of the Bulge was "undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war, and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory." An important player in that victory was General George S, Patton, with his Third Army.
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