Initiated on December 15 1944, the German offensive, known as "Watch on the Rhine" and later referred to by the Americans as the Battle of the Bulge, saw the 5th and 6th Panzer Armies breaking through ...

CHIÈVRES, Belgium -- U.S. Army Benelux Public Affairs asked people who attended the Battle of the Bugle's 73rd anniversary events what Bastogne means to them.

The siege was finally broken on Dec. 26 after elements of Gen. George Patton’s Third Army arrived in Bastogne from the southwest, though the 101st wasn’t pulled from the front until mid-January.

Nicknamed the “Bloody Bucket” by the Germans, the 28th Infantry Division played a major role during the Battle of the Bulge.

The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army reached the city led by a Sherman tank nicknamed the ...

Explore the harsh realities faced by the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of Bastogne in WWII. With limited supplies, ammunition, and cold-weather gear, these brave paratroopers and ...

Bad weather kept U.S. planes on the ground, unable to resupply the defenders. ... On Dec. 26, the vanguard of Patton’s 3rd Army reached Bastogne, breaking the encirclement.

Instead of praying for the weather to break as the Allies did in Bastogne, ... The U.S. Army’s 18th Airborne Corps can deploy an Immediate Response Force anywhere in the world in 18 hours, ...

US Army Gliders And Their ... The U.S. and Great Britain would lead ... The Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 saw 61 gliders provide critical supplies to the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne ...

(Courtesy of U.S. Army Golden Knights/Vincent J. Speranza ... and they had surrounded the town and we had no place to put the wounded,” Speranza told the 101st Airborne Museum in Bastogne in 2012.

Speranza, who fought at Bastogne and was wounded in combat shortly after the Battle of the Bulge, died Aug. 2, 2023 at age 98. ... He served in the U.S. Army from 2008 to 2017.