We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/on_this_day_in_1944_21_december.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:50:56 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Outskirts of Neffe, Belgium, 1944, by Olin Down. Center for Military History Collection. ...it may have officially been the shortest day of the year - but for participants it probably seemed like it would never end. For many, however, it ended all too soon. This year I'm excerpting from the Official History - The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge, by Hugh Cole. Continuing with that theme: The hardest blows dealt the 2d Battalion defenders at Dom Butgenbach came on 21 December. After repeated pleas from the 12th SS Panzer the guns and Werfers which had been used at Krinkelt-Rocherath... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/on_this_day_in_1944_21_december.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/on_this_day_in_1944_21_december.html Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:52:05 -0600 A Time For Trumpets. The Bulge was the finest hour for the artillery and the "damned engineers."]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/on_this_day_in_1944_21_december.html#comment-36798 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2005/12/on_this_day_in_1944_21_december.html#comment-36798 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:57:09 -0600