“We could have succeeded if it had not been for an American colonel named Smythe”
Those were the words of a German colonel named Rossberger, who was chief operations officer for Field Marshall Gerd Von Rundstedt. He told American journalist Thomas Henry about his experiences at the Battle of the Bulge in 1946. The “Smythe” he’s talking about is George W. Smythe, a son of Montgomery County. Born in Norristown in… Read More »“We could have succeeded if it had not been for an American colonel named Smythe”