Pics: In Peiper's footsteps (La Gleize-Cheneux)

Thank you for posting the Ligneuville memorial monument. My Uncle, Pfc Michael B. Penney, was one of the eight men massacred behind the Du Moulin, and is mentioned on the monument. The name and profile picture I'm using is Pfc Michael B. Penney who was massacred.

 

I found this personal remembrance of the Ligneuville Massacre by Madam Marie Loshem. He sister was milking a cow when the German tanks came in.... http://earthlink.net/-3adspearhead/Lofton.htm

 

The link is dead, is there another url for the story?

 

Try this one: http://home.earthlink.net/~crcorbin/Lofton.html

 

Thanks guys! I had not come across Mr. Corbin's website before. Looks like I have some reading to do tomorrow, and I don't have to work tomorrow.

 

My only 'Then & Now' from my recent La Gleize trip. This is of course Knittel scanning the sky for Jabos at La Vaux Richard, just short of Stavelot on Rollbahn D. My wife really thought I'd taken leave of my senses this time, stopping the car suddenly at a tiny hamlet, handing her the camera and then constantly checking the result to say ' NO ! The chimney pot has got to be top left !!'........

 

And today...

 

Nice presentation with great discussions afterwards.

Unfortunately Photobucket has changed 3rd party hosting to a premium feature, so many of the photos are no longer viewable.

 

Malmedy Massacre: event, pictures and information - Fold3.com

 

Hello I enjoyed reading this a lot however i have a couple of questions for instance what happened to the panther in the the photo of the panther.Iam also still unsure of where exactly the film was taken if someone could mark it on google maps and take a screenshot or if anyone has any photos of the area now that would be much appreciated. (it’s for a modelling project of this specific scene.)

 

If you mean Panther '131' in the first post, it was disabled by USAAF P-47 Thunderbolts which atatcked Peiper's column on the uphill stretch of road from the Cheneux Bridge. A farm almost opposite the tank ( not visible in the photo ) was destroyed - sadly killing several civilians - and the tank was damaged by bomb blast.

 

Charles B. MacDonald, "A Time For Trumpets, The Untold Story Of The Battle Of The Bulge", pages 612-613:
Yet how much of that had Montgomery actually done?
o He wanted to pull back from the Elsenborn Ridge even as the battle there was almost won, but bowed to Hodges's objection.
o He wanted to pull back immediately from St. Vith, which would have afforded the Germans early use of a vital road network but again bowed to Hodges's objection; and by the time he specifically ordered withdrawal, Hodges had already specified that the decision on withdrawal was to be up to the man on the ground: Hasbrouch.
o He ordered the 82nd Airborne Division to withdraw from the Salm River to the Trois Ponts - Manhay line, but Ridgeway had already directed Gavin to prepare for such a withdrawal.
o He ordered relinquishing the Manhay crossroads, but in recognition that that opened to the Germans another route to the Ourthe River, Hodges ordered the crossroads retaken.
o He ordered Joe Collins to assemble for an attack, but when most of Collins's force became involved in the defensive battle, authorized withdrawal. Collins attacked instead and stopped the Germans short of the Meuse.
o When it came to reducing the bulge, Montgomery moved so slowly -- however "surely" -- that the Germans were able to regroup undisturbed by the First Army for new assaults on Bastogne.