Early on the morning of 16 December 1944, all hell broke loose on the Western Front as more than 250,000 German troops, nearly 1,000 tanks and 1,900 artillery pieces, supported by 2,000 aircraft launched Adolf Hitler's last gamble in the Ardennes.

Early on the morning of 16 December 1944, all hell broke loose on the Western Front as more than 250,000 German troops, nearly 1,000 tanks and 1,900 artillery pieces, supported by 2,000 aircraft launched Adolf Hitler's last gamble in the Ardennes.