On 19 December 1944, just north of Bastogne, 400 men of Team Desobry and a handful of tanks faced the full weight of the ...

Dec. 16, 1944, put a halt to the hopes of millions of Americans that the long and vicious war in Europe would end quickly and further American casualties would be few. On that morning, in the midst of ...

BASTOGNE, Belgium -- As the attack grew near on Dec. 27, 1944, families in Bastogne, Belgium, about an hour and a half southeast of Brussels, evacuated the city, moving from cellar to cellar to escape ...

Cobra King, the Sherman tank that was first to break through German lines at the Battle of the Bulge, is installed at the site of the National Museum of the United States Army in Fort Belvoir, Va., on ...

In the freezing winter of 1944, General Patton unleashed Colonel Creighton Abrams and the 37th Tank Battalion on a desperate ...

SCHINNEN, Netherlands -- In 1944, all seven main roads in the Ardennes mountain range converged on the small town of Bastogne, Belgium, making control of that crossroads imperative for a German ...

Bastogne was the key turning point in the Battle of the Bulge, a surprise attack by thousands of German troops through the December snow that was Hitler's desperate last attempt to reverse the allied ...

SCHINNEN, Netherlands -- In 1944, all seven main roads in the Ardennes mountain range converged on the small town of Bastogne, Belgium, making control of these crossroads imperative for the attacking ...

An Army veteran of the Battle of the Bulge made the history books come alive with his short speech during a 75th anniversary commemoration in Bastogne, Belgium. Malcolm “Buck” Marsh Jr., who spoke at ...

Organizers of the Bastogne observance are expecting record crowds for the 2004 event, the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. Among the planned events is the annual Bastogne Perimeter ...

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 a ...