'Nuts!' US troops thwarted Hitler's last gamble 75 years ago

BASTOGNE, Belgium — Pvt. Arthur Jacobson was seeking cover in the snow behind a tank moving slowly through the wooded hills of Belgium’s Ardennes, German bullets whizzing by.That was when he lost his best friend and Bazooka team partner to sniper fire. “They couldn’t hit him, he shouted,” Jacobson said wistfully. “Those were his last words.”The recollection of his worst day in the Battle of the Bulge still haunts him, three quarters of a century later during the […]
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