Eighty years ago on Jan. 16, Allied armies (U.S. and British) forced a German retreat that ended the last major German ...
Though the battle ended in January 1945 with the liberation of Bastogne, its legacy endures. Each December, veterans, their Families, and military ... veterans of World War II is both an act ...
A new book by Alex Kershaw, “Patton’s Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II,” is timely ...
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 ... Patton's Third Army had relieved Bastogne, and ...
The ensuing World War II conflict—which ... Battle of the Bulge. U.S. Army One of the most memorable moments of the conflict occurred just before Christmas in Bastogne, when the Germans ...
Borneman, well-known World War II ... Army to wheel around 90 degrees and head north toward the embattled region. Later the mission was refined to relieve the encircled Allied town of Bastogne.