The Siege of Bastogne lasted from Dec. 20 to 27, 1944, between the forces of the American and German armies as part of the Battle of the Bulge. Generals Anthony McAuliffe and Troy Middleton both felt ...
"I thought we might be getting some Bastogne weather," Paul Rogers said, standing in his Overland Park living room but thinking back to his forest foxholes in Belgium during the World War II Battle of ...
DÜLMEN TOWER BARRACKS, Germany – In my five years at U.S. Army Garrison Benelux, this will be my fourth time visiting Bastogne, Belgium for Battle of the Bulge commemorative events and I can say ...
Fog was so thick a man could hardly see ten feet. But in their foxholes north of Bastogne the paratroopers heard Germans talking in the woods ahead. They also heard snapping branches and clanking ...
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 ...
“Hunger, capture and death seemed imminent. Under these circumstances, you do some serious praying,” a 10th Armored Division soldier. Rufus Lewis Jr., an artillery fire control specialist from ...
BASTOGNE, Belgium-The Boy Scouts of America used the 65th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge as a teaching moment for military boys living near the tri-border region of U.S. Army Garrison Schinnen ...
The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of a heroic defence by American paratroopers. Seventy-five years on, the Belgian town is ...