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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-mark="1">This hoped-for assault from the East by the Russians / Ukrainians would force the Germans to pull men out of the Battle of the Bulge in order to defend the German homeland. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-mark="1">Later, Grandpa Joe became a bartender -- as his war wounds in his legs made him fit for little else. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-mark="1">But many a customer never knew the man who poured their drinks had a role, not an insignificant one, in the most important battle of WWII that saved the American force in Europe. For the Germans were on the verge of wiping out the American forces in Europe in the surprise Battle of the Bulge. However, at a critical moment, the Russians and Ukrainians were asked by the USA to attack from the East, opening up the bulge that let the American forces escape the noose they had found themselves in, thanks to a blunder by American generals in Europe. Five men, including Grandpa Joe, were the crucial conduit of information that saved the butts of all those men encircled by the Nazis on the Western front.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;" data-mce-mark="1">DETAILS OF THE EASTERN FRONT ATTACK TO LET U.S. FORCES BREAK FREE IN WEST</span></strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;" data-mce-mark="1"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;">As the articles below show, the Russians agreed to help the Allies in the Battle of the Bulge by moving up their Eastern assault from the 20th of January to January 12th - eight days earlier. If you do a timeline of events (see below), you will see precisely how critical this eight-days acceleration of the Russian attack was to the victory in the west in the Battle of the Bulge. This perhaps is not mentioned very often because the American request 'backfired' in that the Russians ended up at the doorstep of Berlin in a matter of a few weeks. So here are some specifics:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;">1. </span><a href="http://www.quora.com/On-the-day-of-battle-of-bulge-there-was-another-battle-in-Russian-war-theatre-which-was-it-What-were-casualties-in-both-battles" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="http://www.quora.com/On-">http://www.quora.com/On-</a><wbr />the-day-of-battle-of-bulge-<wbr />there-was-another-battle-in-<wbr />Russian-war-theatre-which-was-<wbr />it-What-were-casualties-in-<wbr />both-battles</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: #333333;">Although it came sometime after the start of the German Ardennes offensive [i.e., battle of the bulge, 12/16/44 to 1/25/45] the Soviets launched <strong>a massive attack on January 12</strong> into the German forces in Poland in a drive to reach the Oder River and Berlin. The Soviets had been planning to launch the attack, known as the Vistula-Oder offensive on the 20th <strong>but moved up the start date after the western allies asked the Soviet's to relieve the pressure from the German attack in Belgium</strong>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>DIRE STATUS OF BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1/13/1945 - 1 DAY AFTER RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ON 1/12/1945</strong></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2888061/Slaughter-snow-Hitler-s-crazed-gamble-win-war-terrifying-account-Battle-Bulge-70-years-ago-month-reveals-close-came-paying-off.html" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/</a><wbr />news/article-2888061/<wbr />Slaughter-snow-Hitler-s-<wbr />crazed-gamble-win-war-<wbr />terrifying-account-Battle-<wbr />Bulge-70-years-ago-month-<wbr />reveals-close-came-paying-off.<wbr />html</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6pt 30px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal; min-height: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">But as late as January 13, 1945, a British intelligence officer reviewed the Ardennes battle respectfully: ‘The enemy can claim to have wrested the initiative from the Allies.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6pt 30px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal; min-height: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">‘He has provided his people with a tonic which they sorely needed, and took their minds off the gloomy situation at the end of a disastrous year. He has gained time. Against this, however, the cost was tremendous for the results achieved.’</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>BATTLE OF BULGE STARTED IN DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES </strong>:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/16/eisenhower-bulge-war-leadership-managing-battle.html" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/">http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/</a><wbr />16/eisenhower-bulge-war-<wbr />leadership-managing-battle.<wbr />html</span></p>
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<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin: 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt 30px; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: black;">On Dec. 19, 1944, Dwight Eisenhower and his senior staff met with Gens. Omar Bradley and George Patton. The Americans were suffering in the opening of the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans had achieved c<strong>omplete surprise and threatened to drive through the Ardennes forest, cross the river Meuse and capture American supply depots</strong>.</span></p>
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<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin: 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt 30px; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: black;">Ongoing operations left Eisenhower with <strong>no reserves to deploy</strong>. The weather was terrible, and American air superiority, which could have equalized the situation, had been eliminated. For the first time since D-Day, June 6, the G.I.s were facing a foe that was more numerous, more mobile and better equipped than they were. </span></p>
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<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin: 11.25pt 0in; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: black;"><strong>Russian Assault - January 12th -- Immediate Results in </strong></span><strong style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 18pt;">Leo Barron, <a href="#v=onepage&q=battle%20of%20the%20bulge%20russian%20ukrainian%20forces%20on%20eastern%20front&f=false" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">Patton at the Battle of the Bulge - book</a></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 18pt;">:</span></span></p>
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<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin: 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt 30px; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: black;">"Joseph Stalin...ordered ...the attack... on January 12th. Since the Wehrmacht no longer had a strategic reserve thanks to the Battle of the Bulge, it <strong>did not have the capability to counter-attack and destroy any major Soviet penetration</strong>. ...Army Group A was then <strong>powerless to stop </strong>Marshal Zukhov <strong>when they attacked on the morning of January 12th</strong>. As a result, <strong>the German armies on the Eastern front...retreated hundreds of miles</strong>, ceding Poland to the Russian horde." </span></p>
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<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin: 11.25pt 0in; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;">"Battle of Berlin"</a> Wikipedia:</strong></span></p>
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<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin: 11.25pt 0in 11.25pt 30px; line-height: 18pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Starting on 12 January 1945, the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="Red Army">Red Army</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> breached the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="Nazi Germany">German</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> front as a result of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula%E2%80%93Oder_Offensive" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="Vistula–Oder Offensive">Vistula–Oder Offensive</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and advanced westward as much as 40 kilometres (25 miles) a day through </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Prussian_Offensive" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="East Prussian Offensive">East Prussia</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Silesian_Offensive" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="Lower Silesian Offensive">Lower Silesia</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Pomeranian_Offensive" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="East Pomeranian Offensive">East Pomerania</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesian_Offensive" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="Upper Silesian Offensive">Upper Silesia</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, temporarily halting on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin along the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oder_River" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial;" title="Oder River">Oder River</a><span style="color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">.</span><sup style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.1999998092651px; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHastings2004295-20" target="_blank" style="color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></p>
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<p style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: normal; margin: 11.25pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: black;"><a href="http://www.battleofthebulgememories.be/en/stories/british-army/203-the-british-in-the-battle-of-the-ardennes.html" target="_blank" style="color: #1155cc;"></a><a href="http://www.">http://www.</a><wbr />battleofthebulgememories.be/<wbr />en/stories/british-army/203-<wbr />the-british-in-the-battle-of-<wbr />the-ardennes.html</span></p>
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