Loss and Redemption at St Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge

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Loss and Redemption at St Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge
With Gregory Fontenot
Part of our Battle of the Bulge series
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG3XyxGI5lAd-QZl-kbqPDBbYJEK3R01&si=2Sx4Ffgr-O1S-W5K
Also part of our 80th Anniversary Series
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG3XyxGI5lCyOAGNszPdUOkA43dfSldX&si=bfIRjfLj4XKUcXds
Also part of our Allied Armoured Divisions in WWII series
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDG3XyxGI5lCCdVRty25iJ1lD_iJo8ej1&si=w3yX-LGrAhyceFEN

Loss and Redemption at St Vith closes a gap in the record of the Battle of the Bulge by recounting the exploits of the 7th Armored Division in a way that no other study has. Most accounts of the Battle of the Bulge give short-shrift to the interval during which the German forward progress stopped and the American counterattack began. Today’s presentation focuses on the 7th Armored Division in the campaign, in so doing reconsidering the story of the whole battle through the lens of a single division and accounting for the reconstitution of the Division while in combat.

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Gregory Fontenot is a retired Colonel of the U.S. Army. He is currently a consultant on threat emulation for Army experimentation and a working historian. He was lead author of On Point: The US Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom published by CGSC Press and is the author of The 1st Infantry Division and the US Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991, winner of the 2017 Army Historical Foundation award for Unit History.

Gregory’s previous appearances on WW2TV
The Big Red One in the Battle for Aachen
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From Omaha to the Caumont Gap: The 1st Infantry Division in June 1944
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7 thoughts on “Loss and Redemption at St Vith: The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge”

  4. I’m so old I remember watching The Big Picture as a kid. The Battle of the Bulge episodes were particularly interesting and can also be found on YouTube. I feel like this presentation just scratched the surface of his understanding of this battle. The biggest reversal of opinion I experienced was, rather than a slow pondering response to the initial attack, Eisenhower immediately interpreted the German movement as a major counteroffensive and ordered a timely response. This not only is counterpoint to a slow American response but also of Eisenhower not being a “soldier” and understanding movement at the operational and even tactical level. I’ve often thought he gets a bad rap for just being a politician keeping the British/American coalition from rupturing.

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  5. Dad was with the 7th AD 48TH AIB assigned to an 81mm mortar crew. He only talked about the cold and Christmas Eve 1944 and how they were getting their butts kicked by the Germans. He never went into detail and being young, I never thought to ask questions.

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