As Christmas approaches, the quiet western sector turns deadly. German tanks burst from the tree line in coordinated waves, ...

As German forces encircle Bastogne and sever all roads, General McAuliffe faces a siege without mercy and without ...

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

The German divisions pounded the outnumbered defenders of Bastogne with tanks and artillery. On Dec. 22, the German command, believing the Americans had had enough, sent a formal message to the ...

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 ...

Four German soldiers – two officers and two enlisted men – waving two white flags walked out from their lines just south of Bastogne on the morning of Dec. 22, 1944. They stopped in front of a ...

Overview of the Battle of the Bulge. Early on the misty winter morning of Dec. 16, 1944, more than 200,000 German troops and nearly 1,000 tanks launched Hitler's last bid to reverse the ebb in his ...