DZ Season 064 Part 27. End the War in 44 – Only Human – Bradley 12 – Don't come in George, if you're not bringing good news.

Just a few weeks before the Germans launched their massive and unexpected offensive in the Ardennes on 16 December 1944, Major General Pete Quesada, the commander of IX Tactical Air Command, reported a conference he had had with General Hodges, commander of the First US Army: "He went on and on about how we might lose the war …".

Hodges was the last man you would want commanding exactly this army. And he was the man that General Bradley wanted to be leading the charge into the German northern flank of their offensive.

Tag words: Major General Pete Quesada; IX Tactical Air Command; General Hodges; First US Army; General Omar Bradley; Nigel Hamilton; The Battles of Field Marshal Montgomery; Air Marshal Coningham; XXIX Tactical Command; Eisenhower; Otto Skorzeny; Dominick Graham; Shelford Bidwell; Coalitions, Politicians and Generals; Ardennes offensive; Battle of the Bulge; Patton;Marshall; Bastogne; Brigadier General Sibert; 12 Army Group; Hürtgen Forest; Rick Atkinson; Captain Sylvan; Rundstedt;