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How Fence Wire Stopped 200 German Soldiers in 43 Minutes

This is the true story of how a Kansas farm boy stopped two hundred German soldiers in forty-three minutes using barbed wire, a childhood memory, and a tactic every officer called "the stupidest thing I've ever heard" 🪖🔗. September 1944, near the German border. Corporal James Dalton stared at a stone farmhouse that had already killed eighteen American soldiers. Three hundred men were pinned in a muddy ravine. MG42 machine guns turned every assault into a slaughter. Artillery had failed. Tanks couldn't reach the position. And in seventy-two hours, a Panzer division would arrive and turn the stalled advance into a massacre. Jim had one idea: barbed wire. The kind farmers use to fence livestock. Strung across hedgerow gaps where Germans retreated after firing. A trick his father used to stop cattle on a Kansas wheat farm—adapted to stop Wehrmacht soldiers retreating under fire. Every officer in the 2nd Infantry Division told him it wouldn't work. But three hundred lives depended on someone trying something impossible. What happened next became one of the most effective—and forgotten—battlefield innovations of World War Two. --- *WHY THIS BATTLE WAS "IMPOSSIBLE"* By September 1944, the Allied advance had slammed into Germany's Siegfried Line. The 2nd Infantry Division needed the Wallendorf bridge across the Our River—the only crossing point for miles that could support armor and supply trucks. But a fortified farmhouse controlled the approach, surrounded by hedgerows so dense they swallowed entire squads. The hedgerows weren't neat garden walls. They were centuries-old earth mounds ten feet tall and six feet thick, reinforced with tree roots and brambles. The Germans had turned them into a defensive maze. Fire from one gap, retreat through hidden vegetation, reappear fifty meters away before Americans could adjust fire. The MG42 machine gun—firing 1,200 rounds per minute—made those gaps death traps. Two assaults had already failed. Eighteen men dead. Forty-six wounded. The Army had run out of time and options. *IN THIS VIDEO, YOU'LL DISCOVER:* • Why the hedgerows turned U.S. doctrine into a suicide mission—and how the MG42's 1,200-round-per-minute fire rate made enemy retreat routes more valuable than defensive positions • How Jim Dalton, a farm boy who grew up fixing fences, saw a tactical problem every West Point graduate had missed: the Germans weren't unbeatable, they were predictable • The improvised wire trap that turned retreat routes into killing zones, immobilizing Germans in under three seconds and giving U.S. riflemen the ten-second window they needed • Why the technique worked so well that Germans started using it against Americans during the Battle of the Bulge—and why the U.S. Army refuses to teach it today • How one improvised tactic, executed in darkness thirty meters from enemy lines, saved three hundred lives in forty-three minutes—and why the Army downgraded Jim's Silver Star because "field-expedient tactics don't meet criteria for higher honors" --- *THIS CHANNEL UNCOVERS WWII STORIES THE TEXTBOOKS FORGOT.* Ordinary soldiers who broke the rules and won battles the "wrong" way. Battlefield innovations that never made it into the manuals. The missing pages of history the institution chose not to teach. If you want more forgotten WWII stories like this, **subscribe and hit the bell 🔔**—I post weekly. *Drop a comment:* Which forgotten WWII hero should I cover next? I read every suggestion. #WWII #ForgottenHistory #WorldWarTwo #MilitaryHistory #HiddenHeroes