 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Musi waDecember 16 Mutungamiriri Mukuru weGermany Oberkommando der Wehrmacht akatanga Unternehmen Wacht am RheinOperation Watch on the Rhine, kurwisa kwepasi kuburikidza neArdennes. Luftwaffe yakatsigira kurwisa. JG 77 yakatambura zvikuru muhondo dzendege neRAF Second Tactical Air Force neUS Ninth Air Force neEighth Air Force. Musi wa 23 December 1944 I.JG 77 yakarasikirwa nevarwi gumi nevashanu uye vatyairi vatanhatu vakaurayiwa mukutsinhana kweimwe P-47 Thunderbolt uye B-26 Marauder. In masikati, III.JG 77 vakanga vanobatanidzwa ne P-47s pamusoro Bad Münstereifel uye akarasikirwa 10 Bf 109s kuparadzwa uye vatatu kukuvara pamwe vezvikepe vaviri vakaurayiwa uye vatanhatu vakuvara. P-47 nhatu bedzi ndidzo dzakanzi ndedzechokwadi. 