6 h, dec 22, 1944 y - SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER, GENERAL DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. ORDERS OF THE DAY 22 DEC 1944

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"To Every Member of the A.E.F.

The enemy is making his supreme effort to break out of the desperate plight into which you forced him by your brilliant victories of the summer and fall. He is fighting savagely to take back all that you have won and is using every treacherous trick to deceive and kill you. He is gambling everything, but already, in this battle, your gallantry has done much to foil his plans. In the face of your proven bravery and fortitude, he will completely fail.

But we cannot be content with his mere repulse.

By rushing out from his fixed defenses the enemy may give us the chance to turn his great gamble into his worst defeat. So, I call upon every man, of all the Allies, to rise now to new heights of courage, of resolution and of effort.

Let everyone hold before him a single thought — to destroy the enemy on the ground, in the air, everywhere — destroy him: United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight.

We will, with God’s help, go forward to our greatest victory.”

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