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1. On December 19 and 20, the
1st Battalion of the 506th
Regiment of the 101st airborne
division, supported by Team
Desobry of the 10th Armored in
just four M18 tank destroyers,
engaged the 2nd Panzer
Division at Noville, located
north-northeast of both Foy
and of Bastogne just 4.36
miles away. The M18 Hellcat
Tank Destroyer were faster
than today's M1A2 Abrams.
What was their speed?

2. The 2nd Panzer was to
proceed by secondary roads via
Monaville (just northwest of
Bastogne) to a key north-
northwest running highway to
capture, among other
objectives, fuel dumps, the
lack for which, the overall
German counter-offensive
faltered and failed.

3. The German assault began on
December 16, 1944, at 05:30,
with a massive artillery
barrage on the Allied troops
facing the Sixth SS Panzer
Army. All three German armies
attacked through the Ardennes
had begun their attack by what
time?

4. In the northern sector Sepp
Dietrich's Sixth SS Panzer
Army assaulted the Losheim Gap
and the Elsenborn Ridge. What
was their goal?

5. In the center Hasso von
Manteuffel's Fifth Panzer Army
attacked towards Bastogne and
St. Vith, both road junctions
of great strategic importance.


6. This delay also gave the
101st Airborne Division
enough time to set up its
defenses at Bastogne.
Who commanded the 101st
Airborne Division
in Bastogne?

7. The German commander
requested Bastogne's
surrender.  When the acting
commander of the 101st, was
told, he made a frustrated
response.  After turning to
other pressing issues, his
staff reminded him that they
should reply to the German
demand.  One officer (Harry W.
O. Kinnard, then a Lieutenant
Colonel) recommended that his
initial reply would be "tough
to beat".  Thus he wrote on
the paper delivered to the
Germans.  That reply had to be
explained, both to the Germans
and to non-American Allies.
What was his reply?

8. Who commanded 10th Armored,
Combat Command B at Bastogne?


9. Elements of General George
Patton's Third Army,
spearheaded by Lt. Col. of the
37th Armor Regiment, succeeded
in punching through to
Bastogne, augmenting the
defenders the day after
Christmas. The 101st's ground
communications with the
American supply dumps were
restored, and the wounded were
evacuated to the rear. Who
commanded the unit arriving at
Bastogne from Patton's army?


10. With the encirclement
broken, the men of the 101st
expected to be relieved, but
were given orders to resume
the offensive, and were not
taken off the front until
Noville had been recaptured.