| Posted by xBNSFer on December 8, 2015 | |
The Germans dubbed the 28th Infantry Division "The Bloody Buckets," a nickname based on that insignia at least in part. The 28th also served in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Second World War, including the Battle of the Huertgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge that followed on the heels of the former. Ironically, the 28th's battered remnants were strung out thinly along the front line of the "Ghost Front" in the Ardennes to lick their wounds from the Huertgen Forest, placing them right in the path of the German Fifth Panzer Army and parts of the German Seventh Army for the opening of the Ardennes Offensive.
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