Thunderbolt

11th Armored Division 4th Armored 55th Armored Infantry 56th Armored Engineer 63rd Armored Infantry 90th Infantry Division advance anti-tank April Armored Field Artillery Armored Infantry Battalion Army artillery fire assembled assembly area attack Bastogne Bayreuth bridge bridgehead captured CC A's Chenogne Class DOW Class KIA Private cleared column Combat Command command post continued crossing defense directed Division Artillery Division command Division troops Division's East elements enemy Field Artillery Battalion Field Artillery Group Fifth Grade KIA following CC German Grafenwohr high ground Houffalize KIA Private KIA KIA Staff Sergeant kilometers Kulmbach Kyll River Linz March mission mortar moved North Northeast operation ordered Ougrée p.m. CC patrol Pepinster prisoners Private First Class Rhine River road roadblock route seize Sergeant KIA Private South flank Staff Sergeant Staff Sergeant KIA Steyr Tank Battalion Technician Fifth Grade Technician Fourth Grade Thunderbolts town units Urfahr vehicles vicinity VIII Corps West woods XII Corps ΚΙΑ