World War 2 In Review

Kampfgruppe Peiper during the Ardennes Offensive. by Alfred J. Palfey When units are separated from the division, as the 33rd Armored Regiment and Task Force Lovelady was in the Bulge, communications are often lacking. This was the case of our initial action there, therefore I decided to put all the loose ends together with this story. The tale is more of a summary and omits many interesting events, for example: Near the end of the engagement, Major George Stallings, like Col. Joachim Peiper of the 1st SS, was running short of supplies. At one time he considered surrendering. Doctor (Captain) A. Eaton Roberts was changing his radio from his peep to the aid station, when Stallings was attempting to alert him of the German infiltration. Doc Roberts commandeered a light tank and first reported his dilemma to me at Grand-Coo. It wasn’t until our reunion at Omaha in 1992, when discussing the battle with Aurio J. Pierro that the mystery of a tank missing from his platoon was solv...

Joachim Peiper. U.S. Army The following is a reprint of ETHINT 11, prepared by the U.S. Army. Copy obtained from the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Answers were re-transcribed by the interviewer. According to captured maps depicting the axis of advance for 1 and 12 SS Panzer Divisions, the latter is given three routes and the former two. The most southern 12 SS Panzer Division route lies from Losheim to Losheimergraben to Buellingen to Butgenbach, etc. Obst. Peiper has stated that his regiment’s route lay from Scheid to Losheim to Losheimergraben to Huenningen to Honsfeld. This would appear to leave 12 SS Panzer Division two poor “penetration” routes into the Rocherath area through heavily forested terrain from the direction of Hollerath and Neuhof. The map also shows the northern route of 1 SS Panzer Division as springing from Lanzerath, but Obst. Peiper states that this route was taken only after the Losheim – Losheimergraben route proved to be unusable because of resistan...