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...