Who Actually Ordered the Attack Into the Hurtgen Forest

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About the video: Four American generals share responsibility for the Hürtgen Forest, and none of them lost his job. The order everyone cites does not exist as a single document.

Courtney Hodges commanded First Army and set the November attack date after twenty thousand September casualties proved the sector did not work. Joseph Lawton Collins ran VII Corps, knew the forest negated every American advantage, and never said no. Omar Bradley at Twelfth Army Group fixated on the Roer dams but never ordered anyone into the trees to take them, then watched his main effort advance twenty-two miles in four months while his secondary effort covered fifty-three miles in two weeks on open ground. Dwight Eisenhower demanded continuous attack across the entire front and left sector selection to subordinates, then never asked why one army was burning a division a month for negligible gains. Thirty-three thousand American casualties came from four partial decisions and the gaps between them.