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Here are the actions local governments should be taking the event that what we are witnessing nationally is a successful socially engineered criminal cyberattack on the U.S. Federal Government (taken from Chatgpt): “A successful cyberattack on the U.S. federal government could have ripple effects on local governments, especially in critical infrastructure, law enforcement, and financial systems. B...

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On February 3, 1943, four U.S. Army Chaplains, among almost 900 other personnel being transported to Greenland aboard the U.S Army Transport Dorchester, sacrificed their own lives to save others after their ship was torpedoed in the North Atlantic Ocean by German U-boat 233. According to Sergeant Warish and other surviving eyewitnesses, the Chaplains remained calm during the panic following the at...

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When I think of character I think of Max Hebgen, the Montanan who died of pneumonia contracted on the job when he was 45 years old. By then he had designed our early integrated, carbon-free, hydro-electric system and put it into service. He even reached into this own pocket to keep an electricity company going through hard times, because he knew its importance to our young state. He was the first...

Con Kelley had been a boy in Walkerville, Montana. More significantly, he had a solid knowledge of The Butte Hill. During the years he attended law school, he mapped the mines and orebodies of Butte. After his mentor, John D. Ryan died, Kelley waited through the rest of the Great Depression before stepping into the position of Chairman of the Board for The Anaconda Company (The Company). That move...

We have identified 242 Montanans who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. From available information 77 of them could have fought in any of the battle’s four stages: defending against the initial attack, which involved at least 67 indicated by Blue-in place, Green-rapid reinforcing, Pink-KIA, and Orange-captured dots on the attached map, holding out inside the Siege of Bastogne, which involved at le...

A furious Hitler ordered his generals to capture Bastogne, eliminating this “thorn in the side” and symbol of American defense before proceeding again to the Meuse. At the same time Patton had just reached Bastogne. He was determined to expand the Bastogne pocket and retake its German strongpoints and road networks as a prelude to pushing the Germans back to the Siegfried Line. His Third Army woul...

After the two U.S. Armies finally joined at Houffalize on January 16, Hitler authorized a gradual German withdrawal. The Ardennes Offensive had failed and he needed to counter the Russian spring offensive that had started January 12. In the British House of Commons on January 18 Prime Minister Winston Churchill told his countrymen: “I have seen it suggested that the terrific battle which has been...

The other fight along this German high-water mark occurred 20 miles southeast of Dinant, a Meuse River crossing. Here, the U.S. 7th Corps under General Collins, consisting of the heavy 2nd Armored Division and most of the 84th Infantry Division, faced the German 2nd Panzer Division, the Panzer Lehr Division, and part of the 9th SS Panzer Division sent to help near Rochefort. The 2nd Panzer Divisio...

The German bulge in the American lines was now over 40 miles deep and 60 miles wide, but consisted of two smaller salients. The first, in the central area of the Bulge overran St. Vith and skirted north of Houffalize to create a six mile-wide German advance line at its furthest point between Marche and Hotten on the Ourthe River, 30 miles short of the Meuse River at Huy. To its south another salie...

The Chaplain who wrote the famous war prayer for General Patton was from Montana. Colonel James H. O’Neill, who had been for many years attached to the Helena Roman Catholic Diocese as Vice President of Carroll College, wrote the prayer on Patton’s order, asking for dry weather to assist a breakthrough: “Grant us fair weather for battle.” The date of the prayer was December 14, 1944. Two days late...

Bastogne was important because of the vital junction of seven roads and two railroads. Successful defense of Bastogne came against great odds. The difficulty was in being able to ultimately control a cluster of five municipalities: Bastogne proper, Longvilly, Noville, Villers and Wardin. General Middleton, Commander of the U.S. 18th Corps, made the initial decision to hold onto Bastogne, the key c...

Along the southernmost final attack line for the offensive running down to Echternach lay a picturesque, castled German border with Luxembourg which became known as the “southern shoulder” of the Bulge. This craggy terrain favored the deployment of infantry over tanks. The Germans had few tanks here, a factor the would cost them. Under General Brandenberger, three German Volksgrenadier Divisions a...