At the end of the day, the veterans of the 26th Infantry still held their ground and looked out on a battlefield strewn with destroyed German armor and scores of enemy dead.
The Battle of the Bulge was the US Army's greatest struggle to deny Adolf Hitler's last chance for victory.
The real crusher to the German offensive plans in the Ardennes occurred 46 miles north east of Bastogne, in a small area consisting of a copse of small villages and a piece of high ground called Elsenborn Ridge.
“We didn’t come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.” – Glenn Miller
The Pearl Harbor attack witness died on November 25, 2019.
Ages: Children entering grades 5th – 6th.
Week 2: June 19-23 (5th – 6th grades), 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Join us for a discussion on the complicated life and legacy of scientist Wernher von Braun.
Banter, jokes, jazz, and blues abound when music legends Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald get together.