As Christmas approaches, the quiet western sector turns deadly. German tanks burst from the tree line in coordinated waves, ...

As German forces encircle Bastogne and sever all roads, General McAuliffe faces a siege without mercy and without ...

Nicknamed the “Bloody Bucket” by the Germans, the 28th Infantry Division played a major role during the Battle of the Bulge.

But he needed Bastogne, a crossroads that General Dwight Eisenhower quickly decided must be held. The American general rushed the 101st Airborne (the “Screaming Eagles”) to the town, together ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 / 4 Show Caption + Hide Caption – To block an advance on Bastogne, paratroopers from the 101st Airborne arrived by truck Dec. 19, 1944 and during the 31st annual Bastogne Historical Walk Dec ...

He was describing May 8, when Bastogne celebrates Victory in Europe Day, with ceremonies held in honor of its American saviors. The day falls on May 9 in Russia, because of the time zone difference.

BASTOGNE, Belgium — Some of the last living American veterans of World War II on Saturday met with world leaders and many other admirers as they recounted how the Allies braved subfreezing ...

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 ...