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 ...

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 ...

Robert P. Anderson had a 38-year career as a faculty member at Texas Tech, in part because he climbed a concrete telephone pole in Bastogne during World War II. And if the German troops had been be… ...

The siege of Bastogne was broken when the Cobra King crew linked up with the 101st ... Only 35 U.S. Soldiers made it through the German defenders. The 37th's tanks were "written off the books ...

On a dime, his 10th Armored Division of tanks, self-propelled artillery and support troops turned north on Dec. 17, 1944, and covered 75 miles in one day to arrive in the beleaguered town of ...

A quarter of a million men, almost 1,500 tanks and more than 2,000 artillery pieces were unleashed on the Ardennes and the thinly held American lines on Dec. 16, 1944.