Where's Samoth's Good Morning !!!! Thread?

[blut wump]

It looks like nothing interesting happens on Dec 17th.

The best I could find was that William Safire was born Dec 17th 1929. Not to dis old Billy Safire but, besides creating Agnew's phrase, "nattering nabobs of negativism", what do we have to thank him for?


Good Morning all and everyone.

 

[Smurfy]

yup.

 

[blut wump]

Breaking news:
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, enjoyed the world's first powered, sustained, and controlled heavier-than-air flight in 1903. Piloted by Orville, the airplane remained aloft for 12 seconds and flew a distance of 120 feet.

Mornin', Smurfy

 

[Spartacus]

On December 17 American 7th Armored divisions engaged Dietrich's Sixth Panzer Army at Saint Vith. Saint Vith was a major road that led to the Meuse River and to Antwerp. The American division was successful in halting the German advance and this caused the Germans to take a path that was out of the way. This slowed the Germans down and altered the timing of the German attack plan. The same day some Americans were taken prisoner at Baugnez and were shot by Colonel Peiper's unit while on a road headed for Malmeddy. Of the 140 men taken prisoner 86 were shot and 43 managed to survive to tell the story of what had happened. Rumors of this event spread quickly through the American divisions causing the Americans to fight much harder and with more resolve.