Stopping 1. SS Panzer Division during the Ardennes Offensive

During the Ardennes Offensive, Kampfgruppe Peiper faces encirclement and a desperate battle for survival against elite American divisions. During the Ardennes Offensive in December 1944, Kampfgruppe Peiper ran out of fuel in the small village of La Gleize, surrounded and caught in a vice-like grip by three elite American divisions: the 82nd Airborne Division, the 3rd Armored Division and the 30th Infantry Division. Behind it, 1. SS Panzer-Division ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’ did everything it c