An obscure Brigadier General, Bruce Clarke, and a contingent of American troops slowed tge German advance during the Battle of the Bulge, In the early hours of Sunday morning, December 17, 1944, an American Brigadier general suffering from piles was heading into the unknown. That gray dawn, with the guns rumbling to the east, the newly promoted general was being driven in a looted Mercedes to a Belgian town located a couple miles from the border with Nazi Germany... (read more at the document)