They brushed over the stupidity of the Heutgen Forest fiasco; 24,000 casualties from just the 28th division alone.

Seeing this young men firing 30.06 rounds of rifles and machine guns without hearing protection will make them all have tinnitus, hearing impairment or total hearing loss when they reach middle age. No one returns from war whole. Everyone suffers.

The power of American industry and transport, the logistics of putting the men and supplies from the US into Europe was overwhelming!

The U.S. 28TH Infantry division was totally mauled in the Hurtgen forest, then they got to rest and rebuild in the Ardennes. They got mauled in that battle also, they totally didn't need to have been at Hurtgen first.

My dad was there with the 18th Infantry Regiment Company C.

God Bless those good Boys the best America Had, Never to be bettered...

They still finding dead soldiers here in Schmidt. So many people died here in the Hurtgen forest. This old propaganda movie showes nothing of the dieing. I hope one day people stop fighting each other like this.

My dad (1924-93) was there in the First Army, 544th Ordnance.

I wonder if the Germans fought as fiercely against American troops in the West as they did against the Soviets in the East.

We burst with pride thinking about the Veterans who served in Duty.

Thanks for NOT putting a watermark on this. The film is excellent.

I laughed at the soldier at the end of this episode who was carrying the red hen...He wanted a good chicken dinner further down the road!

I served with the 8th Infantry Division `72-`74 in our mess hall well had a large mural painted on the walls depicting the battle in the forest I was with the 2/13 Inf Bn

Then it was the battle of the bulge!

my dad was 104 inf 329 eng his capt was max eisner

Remember, most footage occurred in a controlled area, not actual combat conditions.

I wonder if one of the men juat walking by the camera or in a foxhole or the back of a truck could be my grandfather.

Bless them all.

My Dad was there. PFC Audrey Clayton: 1st Army, 9th Infantry Division, 39th Infantry Regiment, Company C. under Lieutenant Cain, (or Kane?).

My father was in this dreadful battle after having survived the Normandy invasion at Omaha Beach; then the Ardennes and Luxembourg. He and his men were also at Bergen Belsen three days after the British "liberated" the camp. He went to people's houses, told them to bring shovels, and brought them into the horrors of one of the camps with the bodies piled all over. He said "Dig". They all said "we didn't know". Some of our Dutch relatives were among the corpses. He fought all the way to Berlin where he was in hand-to-hand combat. He was in Company "D", 109th Inf. Reg., 28th Inf. Div. He was awarded several medals...not nearly enough for the slaughter and the horrors.