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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge}}
'''Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge''', written by '''Dan Gross'''.
'''Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge''', written by '''Dan Gross'''.
== Faces of the Bulge ==
A working gallery of Ritchie Boys with a clear, sourced link to the Ardennes offensive (warnings beforehand, service during the battle, or contemporaneous intelligence work). This is '''not''' a complete roster — Ritchie Boys served across the divisions that fought there. Names are added only when a profile, essay, interview, or memo on this site supports the connection.
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<div class="notable-slide-photo">[[File:Brombert, Victor (32906913).jpg|200px|link=Brombert, Victor H. (32906913)|alt=Victor H. Brombert]]</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Brombert, Victor H. (32906913)|Victor H. Brombert]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 11|Class 11]]</div>
<ul>
<li>Filed Ardennes buildup reports before the offensive</li>
<li>Saw action at the Bulge (2nd Armored Division)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-photo">[[File:1825128857509027.png|200px|link=Horlick, Max (32567180)|alt=Max Horlick]]</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Horlick, Max (32567180)|Max Horlick]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 19|Class 19]] · Mobile Field Intelligence</div>
<ul>
<li>Filed Ardennes buildup reports with MFIU units</li>
<li>Opened his book ''Snafu'' with the Battle of the Bulge</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-photo">[[File:Enemy I Knew William Katzenstein 1.png|200px|link=Katzenstein, William B. (33722535)|alt=William B. Katzenstein]]</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Katzenstein, William B. (33722535)|William B. Katzenstein]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 11|Class 11]] · 82nd Airborne</div>
<ul>
<li>Trucked into the Bulge; wounded by shrapnel the first day</li>
<li>[[The Stories/The Enemy I Knew/William Katzenstein|Full story]]</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[King, Edmund L. (01305597)|Edmund L. King]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 7|Class 7]] · MFIU No. 2</div>
<ul>
<li>Signed the unit memo defending pre-offensive intelligence collection</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-photo">[[File:Enemy I Knew Kurt Klein 1.png|200px|link=Klein, Kurt (32554510)|alt=Kurt Klein]]</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Klein, Kurt (32554510)|Kurt Klein]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 5|Class 5]]</div>
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<li>Pulled north to Luxembourg when the Bulge began</li>
<li>[[The Stories/The Enemy I Knew/Kurt Klein|Full story]]</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Krasny, John Friedrich (34170536)|John F. Krasny]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 10|Class 10]]</div>
<ul>
<li>Memoir: interrogators warned SHAEF of the German buildup</li>
<li>Felt the warnings were ignored</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-photo">[[File:1811167892238457.jpg|200px|link=Shehab, Alfred H. M. (01012319)|alt=Alfred H. M. Shehab]]</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Shehab, Alfred H. M. (01012319)|Alfred H. M. Shehab]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 6|Class 6]] · 38th Cavalry Squadron</div>
<ul>
<li>Reconnaissance in the Ardennes when the offensive opened 16 December 1944</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-photo">[[File:Enemy I Knew Manfred Steinfeld 1.png|200px|link=Steinfeld, Manfred (36737899)|alt=Manfred Steinfeld]]</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Steinfeld, Manfred (36737899)|Manfred Steinfeld]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 17|Class 17]]</div>
<ul>
<li>Convoy into the Ardennes; interrogated prisoners during the Bulge</li>
<li>[[The Stories/The Enemy I Knew/Manfred Steinfeld|Full story]]</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-photo">[[File:Stern, Guy (37413105).jpg|200px|link=Stern, Guy (37413105)|alt=Guy Stern]]</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Stern, Guy (37413105)|Guy Stern]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">[[Class 8|Class 8]]</div>
<ul>
<li>Psychological operations during the Bulge</li>
<li>[[The Stories/Guy Stern|Full story]]</li>
</ul>
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<div class="notable-slide-nophoto">No portrait yet</div>
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<div class="notable-slide-name">[[Vogel, Leroy (01322741)|Leroy Vogel]]</div>
<div class="notable-slide-meta">MFIU No. 1</div>
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<li>5 January 1945 memo: MFIU bulletins had flagged the buildup</li>
</ul>
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Max Oppenheimer is named in the essay below but is not shown here yet: two soldiers share that name on the roster, and the source does not say which one filed the reports. Additional faces will be added as sources confirm them.


== Battle of the Bulge ==
== Battle of the Bulge ==
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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Notable Ritchie Boys]] — portrait gallery of selected soldiers
* [[Secret Heroes/First Class]]
* [[Secret Heroes/First Class]]
* [[Introduction]]
* [[Introduction]]
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