“But if our afflictions were heavy, we could take comfort in the knowledge that the enemy's outweighed our own. So severe were his losses that none of those divisions committed in the Bulge was ever effective again.”

— Omar Bradley

Source: A Soldier's Story (1951), p. 483.

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United States Army field commander during World War II 1893–1981

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