Ces souvenirs, ce sont ceux d'Anthony Mc Auliffe, celui qui est passé à la postérité comme le "défenseur de Bastogne", l'homme du "Nuts!". Patton, apprenant cette réplique, notera d'ailleurs ...
Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe was in a tough spot 80 years ago this month. The handful of American soldiers he commanded was ...
On December 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German soldiers launched a surprise attack on Allied troops in a forested region of ...
It is Bastogne that gives us some of the great statements ... Generl McAuliffe shot back with his famous rejoinder, “NUTS!” A soldier’s quip captured the spirit of the American defenders ...
"Nuts," he famously wrote ... of what McAuliffe meant in his one-word reply -- "Go to hell!" The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division ...
À l’occasion du 80e anniversaire de l’Offensive des Ardennes, Bastogne rendra un hommage particulier à l’Histoire au cours de son célèbre week-end "NUTS !". En plus de l’inauguration ...
Les commémorations de la Bataille des Ardennes boostent, chaque année, l'économie locale à Bastogne ... À la brasserie le Nuts, place Mc Auliffe, le patron Guillaume Segalas, constate ...
BASTOGNE, Belgium — On Dec. 16 ... U.S. and Belgian dignitaries threw nuts from the balcony of the town hall, reminding the crowd of Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe’s famous statement in 1944.