To take pressure off the German troops in the Battle of the Bulge, in which 600,000 U.S. and Allied troops had only just managed to halt the massive German counteroffensive in Belgium, the enemy had launched Operation Nordwind to try and trap seven American divisions along the Rhine and recapture Strasbourg. The Germans were halted at the last bridge short of the city and were now slowly retreating. “Firsthand intelligence is urgently required,” the captain told me. “They’re fighting fiercely. We need you to report back to us as often as possible, and follow the retreating Germans as you do
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