December 16th, 1944. Over 200,000 German soldiers launched the largest offensive against American forces in World War II, catching Allied intelligence completely off guard. Within three days, the 101st Airborne was surrounded at Bastogne and Eisenhower called an emergency meeting asking his generals how quickly they could counterattack. George Patton said forty-eight hours. The other generals thought he was grandstanding—but Patton had been preparing for eleven days, ever since his intelligence officer Oscar Koch identified fifteen vanishing German divisions and predicted the attack that SHAEF dismissed. This documentary reveals how Koch predicted the Battle of the Bulge, why Allied intelligence failed, and how Patton executed the fastest army redeployment in modern military history.
Credit to : WW2 Legacy