Gen. Anthony Clement McAuliffe is best remembered for uttering a single word -- no mean feat, considering that even the shortest Bible verse has two. Commanding the U.S. Army’s beleaguered and ...

Brig. Gen. Anthony C. Mcauliffe, artillery commander of the 101st Airborne Division, gives his various glider pilots last-minute instructions in England on Sept. 18, 1944, before the take-off on D ...

Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe was in a tough spot 80 years ago this month. The handful of American soldiers he commanded was ordered to hold a small but critical crossroads village in Belgium. With ...

Thus began a Christmas Eve message from Gen. Anthony McAuliffe to his troops besieged at the Belgian town of Bastogne. Adolf Hitler had launched a desperate counteroffensive against the allies in ...

On Dec. 22, Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe acting commander of the beleaguered 101st Airborne, received a German surrender demand. His heroically colloquial reply was quickly transmitted worldwide: ...

United States General Anthony McAuliffe, above, replied to the ultimatum with a now-legendary one-word response: “Nuts!” —which is a rather milder way of saying, “Screw you.” ...

Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe was in a tough spot 80 years ago in December. The handful of American soldiers he commanded were ordered to hold a small but critical crossroads ...

Anthony McAuliffe News from United Press International. On Dec. 22, 1944, ordered to surrender by Nazi troops who had his unit trapped during the Battle of the Bulge, Gen. Anthony McAuliffe of the ...

71 Years Ago: On Dec. 22, 1944, the Battle of the Bulge was underway at the town of Bastogne, in Belgium, during World War II. Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, the commander of the encircled U.S ...

Given a surrender ultimatum by the Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, Army Gen. Anthony McAuliffe famously replied, “Nuts!” But last week, President Trump all but gave Putin ...

Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe was in a tough spot 80 years ago this month. The handful of American soldiers he commanded were ordered to hold a small but critical crossroads ...

Anthony McAuliffe, who retired from the army as a four-star general in 1956, carried for the rest of his days as an affectionate nickname the same thing he had told ...