Battle of The Bulge

In December of 1944 Adolf Hitler decided that he wanted to split the Allied Forces of Northern Europe, so he got his troops together to surprise Blitzkrieg thrust to Antwerp in attempt to scatter them. His goal was to surprise everyone because they all thought that the war was over, but he believed that if he split the allied forces, he could turn the tide of the war in his favor. Which is what the Germans had tried three times before. The Americans fought desperately for the allies and many battles were fought for the title of the winner. One day, the Allies were walking over a field and looked as if they were a large moving bulge; that is where the name of the battles came from. Even though the Allies had seen the same thing before from the Germans, they were still caught off guard and didn't have strong troops put together.

On December 16, the most tragic ad desperate battle was fought in the deepest of the Ardennes forest. The US was pretty inexperienced at this time and was almost annihilated. The Germans suffered a fuel shortage which was fatal to Hitlers plan, but the battle was still the most costly fight that the U.S. has ever fought even to this day. The U.S. suffered about 100,000 casualties.

Sources:
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-the-bulge
http://www.army.mil/botb/