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Nicknamed the “Bloody Bucket” by the Germans, the 28th Infantry Division played a major role during the Battle of the Bulge.
The first troops into the encircled Belgium city of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge is often stated as the 4th ...
It’s not every day you see a father and son not only wear the same uniform but serve side by side in the same brigade. The ...
Explore the harsh realities faced by the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of Bastogne in WWII. With limited supplies ...
The German divisions pounded the outnumbered defenders of Bastogne with tanks and artillery. On Dec. 22, the German command, believing the Americans had had enough, sent a formal message to the ...
‘What’s merry about all this, you ask?” Thus began a Christmas Eve message from General Anthony McAuliffe to his troops besieged at the Belgium town of Bastogne. Adolf Hitler had launched a ...
And Bastogne had to be relieved quickly. The man for the relief mission was George Patton, probably the single most aggressive commander on either side during the war.
The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army reached the city led by a Sherman tank nicknamed the ...
On Christmas Eve 1944, in the besieged Belgian town of Bastogne, a U.S. Army doctor named John T. Prior was about to write a letter for a dying officer in the makeshift hospital next door. It was ...
Bastogne Soldiers from across 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), competed in a weeklong competition across warfighting functions for several accolades, but ultimately ...
PARIS (AP) — Tadej Pogačar will be supported by an impressive squad in his quest for a fourth Tour de France title. The UAE ...
Bearing down on Bastogne were General Hasso von Manteuffel’s 5th Panzer Army, General Heinrich von Luttwitz’s 47th Panzerkorps, General Fritz Bayerlein’s Panzer Lehr Division, the 26th ...