Bastogne
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Bastogne is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium.
Bastogne Rue du Sablon R01
St. Pierre Church
The Mardasson Memorial to soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944
Siege of Bastogne
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The siege of Bastogne was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive
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…ground forces. On 26 December, the Third U.S. Army, under the command of General George S. Patton, arrived and broke the siege. The official end of the Battle of Bastogne occurred three weeks later, when all fighting in the area ceased. Bastogne is the terminus of the Liberty Road, the commemorative way that marks the…
101st Airborne Division troops watch as C-47s drop supplies over Bastogne, 26 December 1944
Letter from General McAuliffe on Christmas Day to the 101st Airborne troops defending Bastogne, containing a report of the famous one-word reply to the Germans: NUTS!.
101st Airborne troops picking up air-dropped supplies during the siege.
Members of C Company, 9th Engineers, conduct a memorial service for those killed during the siege, 22 January 1945.