together with other units. Seventy years ago, the heroes of Bastogne, or, as they were fondly dubbed, “the battered bastards of Bastogne,” spent Christmas breaking the advance of the German ...

A tour led by an 88-year-old guide in Bastogne, Belgium, scene of a critical battle of World War II, offers a snapshot into ...

Harper, who was still inspecting his units' positions ... retraces the events of December 22nd, 1944 at Bastogne, Belgium; the day we received German surrender ultimatum and issued the subsequent ...

Although the heroic Siege of Bastogne ... With overwhelming German numbers of troops and tanks pouring off of the Schnee Eifel and threatening to engulf St. Vith as your unit barely trickles ...

and when the acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne was summoned by his German adversary to surrender, he simply responded, "Nuts!" Within days, Patton's Third Army had ...

"John, too, had been wounded in battle near Bastogne and found himself in a barn 20 miles behind the German lines," Anderson said. "Someone, a nameless paratrooper, had loaded him and three others ...