2008年12月13日 · One of the best WWII stories is about how a small group of American soldiers stopped a kampfgruppe of an SS panzer division by pouring drums of gasoline onto a road and thus blocking the direct route to a huge gasoline dump and Spa, Belgium. The story was so good that it made it into the Henry Fonda movie about the battle.

We operated the huge fuel dump which was dispersed in the woods between Spa and Stavelot, roughly 5 million gallons of gasoline, diesel, and lubricants. On the morning of December 18, 1944 we were awakened by the sound of explosions. We were supposedly far behind the lines so we were not too concerned.

The SPA AS.37 was an Italian military light truck, used during World War II. The AS.37 Autocarro Sahariano was developed from 1937 on the frame of the TL.37 artillery tractor and was especially conceived to be employed in the North African desert.

The TL.37 was an Italian military artillery tractor of World War II. It was manufactured by SPA (Società Piemontese Automobili), an Italian car maker that was a subsidiary of Fiat.

2024年10月1日 · This is an interesting map, dated 31 October 1944, of the defense layout for FUSA's HQ at Spa (Belgium). The town and surrounding area appear to have been divided into sub-sectors (Red, Green, Blue and White.

It shows scenes of troops in and around Spa during the period when the German GHQ was based at the Hotel Britannique. The Germans moved their GHQ (OHL – Das Oberste Heeresleitung – in German) to the little resort of Spa, deep in the Belgian Ardennes, on March 8th 1918. It was 140 east of Arras and 20 miles south of the Dutch border.

2002年10月16日 · The Battle of the Bulge was fought roughly where the old Spa racecourse runs. Im currently looking at a map detailing the route of Kampfgruppe Peipers advance. It runs through Stavelot. Does...

Belgium Liège Spa This majestic building 'Hotel Britannique' was the headquarters of the German Army for the Western Front from March to November 1918. Field Marshal Von Hindenbrug and General Ludendorf represented the highest ranks within headquarters and were the strategists and army leaders on behalf of Kaiser Wilhelm II. .

This monument at Place du Monument in the center of Spa commemorates the civilians and soldiers of Spa who perished in the 1st and 2nd World War. Also 2 soldiers killed in the Korean War. The side of the monument lists the names of those who died due to acts of war, were murdered, or died in combat.

2013年5月7日 · The town declined after the French Revolution, then revived itself, as such towns do—in Spa’s case, by peddling varnished woodware and a liqueur known as Elixir de Spa. Here the Imperial German Army had placed its field headquarters during the last weeks of World War I: It was in the Grand Hôtel Britannique on the Rue de la Sauvenière ...