On Christmas Eve, an American officer wrote “Merry Christmas” on a map showing the Americans ... General Patton finally arrived to relieve Bastogne. The siege had been broken, and so had ...

The siege of Bastogne will forever be remembered because of the staunch resistance by the men of the 101st Airborne, specifically the 2nd Battalion of the 506th - the Band of Brothers.

With the Fifth Panzer Army fighting its way towards the River Meuse the cross roads town of Bastogne vital for the ... the other garrison troops in a siege where they fought not only the enemys ...