allied won the battle of the bulge in world war 2.
who won the battle of the bulge in world war 2?
allied
during the second world war he commanded the british eighth army in the western desert from august 1942 until the final allied victory in tunisia in may 1943. this period included the second battle of el alamein. he subsequently commanded the british eighth army during the allied invasion of sicily and the allied invasion of italy. he was in command of all allied ground forces during operation "overlord" from the initial landings until the end of the battle of normandy. he then continued in command of the 21st army group for the rest of the campaign in north west europe. his 21st army group failed in their airborne attempt to bridge the rhine under operation market garden, after being defeated in the battle of arnhem. when german armoured forces broke through the american lines in belgium months later in the battle of the bulge, montgomery was given command of the north shoulder of the bulge. this included temporary command of the us first army and the us ninth army, which held up the german advance in the north of the bulge while the us third army under patton relieved bastogne from the south. montgomery's 21st army group, bolstered by the us ninth army and the first allied airborne army, crossed the rhine in operation plunder in march 1945, two weeks after the us first army had crossed the rhine in the battle of remagen. on 4 may 1945 montgomery accepted the surrender of the german forces in north-western europe at lüneburg heath, east of hamburg, after the surrender of berlin to the ussr on 2 may but before the general surrender to shaef on 7 may.
bernard montgomery
bullet::::- australian infantry battalions formed just prior to or during world war 1 had a pair (a stand) of colours, being a king's colour based on the union flag and a separate regimental colour emblazoned with the battalion number and its colour patch (shoulder badge). battle honours were also emblazoned on the regimental colour. these customs followed the british tradition. some of those world war 1 battalions were amalgamated prior to or during world war 2. for example, the 57th battalion amalgamated with the 60th battalion in 1930, forming the 57th/60th battalion which saw action in the south west pacific campaigns during world war 2. the 57th/60th battalion did not have its own colours, but by dint of history inherited both sets of colours (both stands) from the 57th and the 60th. in accordance with the order of battle the 57th/60th wore the colour patch of the 57th on its uniforms, but they still paraded and presented the colours of both the 57th and the 60th. the queen gave permission in 1960 for the battle honours from world war 2 (south-west pacific 1943–45, liberation of australian new guinea, commando road, etc) to be emblazoned on (what were by then and remain) the queen's colours, rather than on the regimental colours which were already emblazoned with honours from world war 1 (the somme, passchendaele, villers-bretonneux, amiens, etc). a similar situation occurred with the amalgamation in 1942 of the 58th battalion and the 59th battalion to form the 58th/59th battalion, which wore the colour patch of the 58th battalion on its uniforms but inherited and paraded both stands of colours from the 58th battalion and 59th battalion. the 57th/60th battalion and the 58th/59th battalion were disbanded soon after world war 2 and the colours were laid up in the shrine of remembrance in melbourne where they are on display in the crypt. the shrine and other war memorials and churches around australia display many other stands of battalion colours that have been laid up in their care, such as st stephens church, sydney.
military colours, standards and guidons