PaintballX3 Magazine December 2013 Issue | Page 72

72 on the advancing Germans, they were forced initially to fight it out on the ground using anything at their disposal. As the Americans transitioned from stunned withdrawal to valiant defense, they slowed the German advance and the weather cleared allowing air support to bring help to the soldiers on the ground as reinforcements rushed to the front. At great cost, the Allies were able to halt this last German offensive of the war and start the final countdown to the end of the Third Reich. dECEMBER 2013