DENTAL TECHNICIANS DRIVING DANGEROUSLY IN WW2 BY TONY LANDON Leave a comment

The Battle of the Bulge took place during the mid-winter of 1944 – 1945 in the pine forested area of the Ardennes just cross the border of Germany into Belgium.  Both battling armies had problems supplying through deep snow sufficient troops, various ammunitions, food, fuel, medical and other essential supplies to their ever changing front lines.

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The German’s had well prepared for their inspirational attack to split the American and Allied forces but two major factors hampered them.  First they kept their essential stock piled supplies well and truly hidden under camouflage too far back, east of the Rhine River, which led to sheer difficulties of supplying their front line combatants.  Secondly, even to the last year of WW2 the German army utilised horse drawn carts and waggons to transport all their essential supplies from their rail head depots to their front lines.  Each of their divisions required logistical support of 500 tons per day.  Their horse drawn four wheeled wagons were so slow moving through the unprecedented snow drifts.