Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

Unlike Pearl Harbor, however, the Allies turn the Battle of the Bulge into a great victory. The Germans inflict more than fifty thousand Allied casualties in killed, wounded and missing. However, the Germans suffer seventy thousand casualties of a similar nature. They also lose another fifty thousand troops as prisoners of war. In terms of material, the Germans lose six hundred tanks, sixteen hundred airplanes, and countless vehicles. According to a top commander in the German Air Force, the “Luftwaffe” received its death blow in the Ardennes.… It was decimated while in transfer, on the ground, in large air battles, especially during Christmas, and was finally destroyed.”