In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was ... in Bastogne was summoned by his German adversary ...

“the battered bastards of Bastogne,” spent Christmas breaking the advance of the German army in one of the most storied fights in American history. It is Bastogne that gives us some of the ...

With the Fifth Panzer Army fighting its way towards the River Meuse the cross roads town of Bastogne vital for the ... reached Bastogne just before the German ring around the town closed Wearing ...

On December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German soldiers launched a surprise attack on Allied troops in a forested region of Belgium and Luxembourg known as the Ardennes. The ensuing World War II ...

Henri Mignon leading a group of students from North Carolina as they visit the War Museum in Bastogne ... Houffalize, from German occupation — the second time, he said, when he was 8 years ...

In late November, in the fighting around the German-held town of Nothalten ... to fill the space left by the 3rd Army as it sped to Bastogne. From mid December to mid January 1945, his unit ...

southwest of Bastogne, on December 30th. He survived weeks of chaotic fighting in the snow and bitter cold, and in the village of Chenogne captured thirteen German prisoners almost inadvertently.