Ambush at Poteau
Ardennes Offensive 1944

Early in the morning on December 18 1944 an American convoy of the 14th Cavalry Group was ambushed by SS-Kampfgruppe Hansen. With help from the heavy fog Hansen achieved complete surprise and forced the allies to abandon their vehicles and pull back to the town of Poteau.
Shots taken by war correspondantes for the Wochenschau show SS-Panzergrenadiers and men dressed in Luftwaffe gear, most likely transferred former Luftwaffe personnel still in their LW uniforms or paratroopers from 3.Fallschirmjäger-Division, loitering around the U.S. wreckage along the road to Poteau.