FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (WKRN) — More than 100 soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division helped honor the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

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 Cobra King -- now on display at the National Museum of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir,

One of the most important and deadly battles in World War II, the Battle of the Bulge stopped Adolf Hitler’s last-ditch offensive.