{"id":21549,"date":"2010-12-16T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21549"},"modified":"2010-12-17T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:49:14","slug":"battle-of-the-bulge-66th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21549","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Bulge 66th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Battle_of_the_Bulge_58703bg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21550\" title=\"Battle_of_the_Bulge_58703bg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Battle_of_the_Bulge_58703bg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Battle_of_the_Bulge_58703bg.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Battle_of_the_Bulge_58703bg-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 0530 on December 16th, 1944, the Germans opened up with 1600 artillery pieces across an 80-mile front launching the last gasp attack from the Third Reich in a bid to end the war in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will mark the 66th anniversary of the Melmedy and Wereth massacres in which American soldiers were executed. About 150 at Malmedy and 11 Black soldiers tortured and then executed at Wereth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED Sporkmater: <\/strong>But there is another battle coming up on Jan 1st 1945 that was totally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1lW2nU4vRWM\">unexpected <\/a>but not as well known. I am talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Bodenplatte\">Operation Bodenplatte<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 0530 on December 16th, 1944, the Germans opened up with 1600 artillery pieces across an &hellip; <a title=\"Battle of the Bulge 66th anniversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21549\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Battle of the Bulge 66th anniversary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}