Dec. 16, 1944, put a halt to the hopes of millions of Americans that the long and vicious war in Europe would end quickly and further American casualties would be few. On that morning, in the midst of ...

The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of a heroic defence by American paratroopers. Seventy-five years on, the Belgian town is ...

Under artillery fire in frozen Belgium, combat medics established battlefield medicine standards still used today.

In December 1944, during World War II, the town of Bastogne became the center of Germany’s last major offensive in the West.

CHIÈVRES, Belgium -- People from around the world will gather in Bastogne, Belgium, Dec. 13 to 16 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. The 42nd Bastogne December Historic ...

"The snow turned red," machine gunner Vincent Speranza recalled, as the hastily dug-in troops of the 101st Airborne Division opened up on attacking German infantry and tanks to defend the Belgian ...

DÜLMEN TOWER BARRACKS, Germany – In my five years at U.S. Army Garrison Benelux, this will be my fourth time visiting Bastogne, Belgium for Battle of the Bulge commemorative events and I can say ...

Seventy-five years after the snow bound hills of the Ardennes saw the bloody turning point of World War II, surviving veterans gathered for perhaps the last time. On Monday, they were honoured by a ...

The Belgian forest was full of snow and Germans. Soldiers shivered in foxholes, barely able to see in the blackness of night. It was so cold many of them lost hands or feet to frostbite. Howard Buford ...

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. But before the ...

Probably the last I will be writing about the Siege of Bastogne and Christmas in the Ardennes during the 1944 Battle of the ...

The Battle of the Bulge was the last German offensive of World War II, and the Siege of Bastogne the scene of a heroic defence by American paratroopers. Veterans, historians and military enthusiasts ...