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Space Exploration: The Battle Of The Bulge

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Space exploration has inspired the world to do great things. This is how it started, and this is where we are going. It was the winter of 1945, a time nearing the end of World War Two. Hitlers five week attack, infamously know as the Battle of the Bulge was just about to end. France, Belgium, Canada, Luxembourgish Resistance, and the United Kingdom, were fighting along side the Americans in the Bataille des Ardennes, which is another name for the Battle of the Bulge. Through constant bombing, and their troops being stretch thin, the Germans started to slowly fall into the hands of the allies. However, though the smoke rose another super power, the Soviet Union, commonly known as the USSR, or the Red Army. Approaching from the east

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