Second Lieutenant O'Brien died.

On December 23, 1944, the Germans were well on their way in the Ardennes counterattack, having broken through many Allied lines, with the coast in sight, Antwerp and Liège were already crumbling, and soon cut off the Allied supply lines in Belgium.

The Allies in Belgium desperately retracted and tried to defend themselves against the German attack on their rear, but it was too late. On the 22nd, Bastone was lost, and a division of the American army was annihilated, and the strategic situation of the German army was very good. The British Air Force desperately began to indiscriminately drop bombs on areas where the Germans and the Allies were entangled, even using Lancaster bombers to drop the newly produced "Grand Slam" bombs.

O'Brien and his pursuers were engaged with units of the U.S. Army's 2nd Armored Division, with tanks on both sides staggered and enemies on all sides - for both sides. At this time, a 22,000-pound bomb coincidentally hit O'Brien's pursuers......

O'Brien died completely unconscious—quickly and cleanly. It is impossible to deduce whether he was killed by a bomb or by a blow up - it makes no difference anyway.

The fighting of the Germans continued, and on the 24th the weather improved, and the Allied air forces were dispatched in large numbers. But at the same time, Germany's super air aces also went out, and the sky was like a boiling pot, and countless fighters on both sides were strangled together.

The Allied fighters suffered heavy casualties, and those fascist aces in the sky were like gods - dodging the shells fired by the Allied pilots in advance, and each attack had multiple Allied planes shot down, they almost missed a shot, and there was not much waste, about 4~5 shells could shoot down an Allied fighter.

The sky was occupied by black "crows" and "swifts", and the "meteors" of the British really turned into falling meteors in the sky, and the American P59s were powerless to fight back.

Fortunately, the Germans are a minority of super-aces with special abilities, and their shells are not infinite, and the number of sorties per day is also limited. Most of the German pilots were just a little more capable than the Allied pilots, so the Allies slowly turned the situation back with their absolute superiority in numbers and logistics, and at the same time they could also send a large number of aircraft to attack the German army units on the ground, and the German aces could not shoot down all the attack planes after all......

However, the advance of the German ground forces was still strong, and on the 25th they engaged in a fierce tank battle with the US 2nd Panzer Division and the 1st Infantry Division, in which the power of the King Tiger, the Lynx and the E100 Mammoth was fully demonstrated. They drove the U.S. 2nd Armored Division and the 1st Infantry Division out of the battlefield, destroying a large number of U.S. armored forces and forcing the two divisions to retreat to Antwerp for rearmament. However, it was the fighting efforts of the Americans that caused a large amount of ammunition and fuel consumption of the Germans, and at the same time, the German logistics supply depot was also attacked by some American detachments.

The report said that an American soldier wearing a blue military uniform, a white five-pointed star on his chest, a half-mask with an A on his forehead and a peculiar small round shield on his left hand went into battle. The soldier's reflexes, physical strength, and speed surpassed ordinary people, and he could even judge the trajectory of a machine gun and use a shield made of strange metal in his right hand to defend himself. This shield can withstand the strafing of the MG machine gun, and this strange American soldier can also use the shield to protect against bullets without breaking his arm - a strong arm and strong bones. And he can also use his shield to attack - flying out like a flyer and a frisbee to hit people, and shooting with a pistol with his right hand is extremely accurate. This American soldier led a small group of American soldiers to attack several German logistics supply sites, fought many battles with SS Colonel Hugo Weaving, and succeeded! They destroyed several supply depots, and most importantly - they blew up a very important American oil depot that had just been captured by the Germans, and successfully nailed the first coffin nail to the defeat of the German Ardennes counterattack.

The American soldier was hyped up as having his code name "Captain America" or something, but in the end this "Captain America" hit the iron plate.

On the 27th, the Germans had already captured Liège and reached the city of Antwerp. At this point, the Germans' logistics began to come to an end - there was not much fuel left, and the Allies blew up the logistics warehouses in the places where they were about to lose after each battle. There was also little ammunition, and a large amount of Allied equipment captured was no different from scrap metal. And on this very day, the American soldier led a group of soldiers to attack the most important arsenal of the German front.

But at this time, a group of tanks was being repaired at this large logistics supply base, and the captain, after knocking out dozens of German soldiers, was covered by the fire of the German tanks that had been forcibly activated. Only a broken shield and a few pieces of blue cloth were found, but the man and his men succeeded in destroying several anti-aircraft fire points and sending a telegram, and the ensuing Allied indiscriminate bombardment, regardless of casualties, eventually destroyed a large amount of ammunition and fuel.

The German offensive stopped, they ran out of ammunition and fuel, and there was another mistake in the early command - they did not anticipate the difficulties of logistical replenishment, they were completely gambling. Now the Germans could still maneuver a little with their captures, but there was no ammunition at all - Allied bombardment cut off the supply of railways and roads.

The Germans were forced to retreat - and if they didn't run, it would be too late. A large number of tanks and armored vehicles without fuel and ammunition were abandoned and blown up, and the Allies began to pursue after catching their breath. The Germans lost a total of more than 90,000 soldiers and more than 300 tanks, except for the E100 "Mammoth", E50 "Lynx" and King Tiger and some heavy tank destroyers and assault guns that ran back by giving priority to replenishing fuel, all the Black Panthers and No. 4, medium assault guns and artillery were all lost. The elite of the German armored forces and infantry on the Western Front was broken, and the air force also suffered huge losses under the Allied airfield bombing strategy, with a large number of rookie pilots shot down, a large number of planes blown up on the runway, and a total of more than 200 fighters and more than 100 bombers lost.

The losses of the Allies were also huge, they lost a total of 110,000 soldiers, of which more than 80,000 were American soldiers, a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery were destroyed or captured, and a total of more than 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles and more than 800 artillery pieces were lost. More than 300 fighters and more than 50 bombers were shot down in the air, but they succeeded in destroying the main German forces on the Western Front, and it was only a matter of time before they entered the German mainland.

Favinier had no time to care about all this, and he was now engaged in a fierce battle with the pursuing Soviet troops on the border with the Soviets in Poland. In just 48 hours, 11 Soviet attacks were repulsed, but to no avail. The Germans had lost more than 600,000 troops and more than 1,200 tanks in the battles of Belarus and Ukraine, and Army Group Center had been effectively routed, and now it was all relying on winter and elite small forces to resist the pursuit of the Soviets and buy time for its own regrouping. If nothing else, in January 1945 they were going to fight the Soviet Red Army in Poland and Romania or Yugoslavia, and no one at the front cared about the consequences