#Bastogne

It’s important to remember that, although the 101st Airborne Division did suffer from a surfeit of small arms ammo, their artillery was in much better shape. The 101st had, in
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A KING ENTERS BASTOGNEThe Battle of the Bulge Continues[1 of 12] [2 of 12]Benedict Arnold's thrust at Saratoga. The defeat of Pickett's Charge. The first 48 hours of the American
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1 of 12:Back to our no-b.s. Battle of the Bulge account. Here we are in Bastogne, mid-day, Wednesday, December 20, 1944.Let's take a look at the 101st Airborne's force array.[if
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A bit more information before the REPULSE resupply tweets come in. The aerial resupply of the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne and elements of the 106th Inf Div at Marcouray
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[1 of 9]Back to the #BattleOfTheBulge.Maxwell Taylor is just now returning to the fight from DC as his 101st is fully encircled.Lawton Collins' VII Corps & Matthew Ridgway's XVIII ABN
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Bastogne Supply Drop: Color photos taken by Major Joseph Antrim, C47 pilot, 437th Troop Carrier Group on Dec 23, 1944, while on the way to Bastogne to drop supplies to
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1 OF 15:BATTLE OF THE BULGE DAY 3: DECEMBER 18, 1944Battling Bastards of Bastogne~2:15 AM, Major General Matthew Ridgway, unaware of the fighting in Ardennes, and sleeping in his HQ,
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Bastogne, Belgium. 1944. Walk with us this morning.We're on the lines with the 101st Airborne. Encircled and outgunned, holding Bastogne. Numb hands and feet, freezing in the dirty snow.The Germans
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NUTTTS!!On December 22, 1944, the 101st Airborne Division was still surrounded by the German troops, while they themselves surrounded & defended the town of Bastogne. 1/ At 11.00am a group
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Officially termed Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, the Ardennes Offensive or Battle of the Bulge, was the last major German campaign on the Western Front during WW2.1/ By this stage in
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1 of 11:DECEMBER 20, 1944BATTLE OF THE BULGE, DAY 5At this point, the reserve forces (the 82nd and the 101st and the headquarters of the XVIII Airborne) are in sector
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I could not get worked up about JOJO RABBIT, pro or con. Obviously it's as phony as a $3 bill. That didn't bother me. What struck me is that it's
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1 of 23DECEMBER 22, 1944: NUTS!As a practical matter, the fight was over. 2 of 23:When describing the 101st Airborne Division and the remnants of the 60th and 28th Divisions
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Christmas midnight mass at the De Schark cave, near Margraten, Netherlands. We attended services there in 2011, commemorating that night when US Soldiers & Dutch citizens came together for services
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The vital role played by the 28th Infantry Division’s 110th Regimental Combat Team by delaying the advance of XLVII Panzer Corps, saved the strategic crossroads town of Bastogne, Belgium from
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[1 of 19]76 years ago tonight, James Hendrix [and we're not talking about the one who briefly served in the 101st], a bazooka man with the 4th Armored Division, was
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