Alvin Ackerman & the Battle of the Bulge
4 min readNov 10, 2018
This is an untold tale of an American farm boy who helped save the world from Nazis eighty years ago.
The son of German immigrants, Alvin Ackerman was born in 1924 in a small sod house on the 200-acre wheat farm his father leased from the Sioux on the unforgiving Great Plains of eastern Montana. Alvin was still a child when his family decamped for greener pastures on the lush Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
Meanwhile, back in Europe, freedom began to dim.