The Battle of the BulgeFought in the winter of 1944 1945, the coldest in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty one American divisionsfully one third of the U. S. Army raised during World War IIsaw action in this battle. But it was also a test: could this conscript army from a pacifistic democracy defeat the best remaining men and machines that Germany's totalitarian government could