Facing the 12th SS 'Hitlerjugend'

18th December 1944: Surprised and outgunned by panzers - yet some US Army units manage to build a defence line despite facing fanatical Nazis

A U.S. soldier with a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) peering across a snowy field in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944.

The US Commanders were now realising that they faced something much bigger than they had initially thought. German forces were pushing a 'bulge' into their lines on the Belgium-German border. This was the term the Press…