My position was that as ammunition handler, but in all reality, I was an armored infantryman. The weather now cleared, enabling the Allied fighter bombers to join the Ardennes battlefield. At places like Rocherath, visibility was practically zero. The Battle of the Bulge and the weather Extract from the book: Thor’s Legion, Weather Support to the US Air Force and Army.. By John F. Fuller It was the largest pitched battle ever engaged in by U.S. troops – some 600.00 of them, more than twice the number that fought on both sides at Gettysburg. Great snowstorms were a big problem. The Weather on 16 December 1944 I was 19 years of age and I was a Private First Class. Jack Womer, February 1944. Weapons froze, so men urinated on them to thaw them. Trucks had to be run every half hour to keep the oil in them from freezing. Cold still haunts Battle of the Bulge veteran, 96. It got much colder after that. However, keep a few things in mind. The ambulance drivers were going to take them back to one of the 101st Airborne’s makeshift aid stations or field hospitals that had been set up behind our lines. January 1945 proved to be the coldest month in several years with freezing snowstorms at times turning the ground as solid as rock. 1. The battle was fought over a roughly six week period. We rode in a halftrack and sometimes pulled a 57mm artillery piece. The temperatures fluctuated. And men of Tommy Moorman’s Twenty-first Weather Squadron were in the thick of it. A few of us helped the ambulance drivers load the wounded into two ambulances. "At 5:30 a.m. on December 16, 1944, when the battle began, the temperature in Bastogne, Belgium, was 14 degrees Fahrenheit." The weather on December 16th, the day of the German attack:

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The weather turned clearer but colder on Christmas Day, finally allowing the Allied fighter bombers to enter the battle. It was considered one of the worst winters on record. There was fog, drizzle and clouds throughout December 16 and 17. The temperature during January 1945 was the coldest on record, and casualties from exposure to the cold grew as large as the losses from fighting.

Anti-aircraft gunners watching the aerial battle, December 25,1944. Originally published December 29, 2014 at 6:01 am Updated December 30, 2014 at 10:26 am.

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