An incredibly thick blanket of fog hung low over Stoumont and the Amblève valley on the morning of December 19. But even through the fog, American observers on the outskirts of Stoumont could see that a sizable attack was about to commence.
Warsaw was left devastated and in ruins when the Germans retreated and the Red Army arrived 75 years ago.
Hitler had from the beginning posited the war effort as presenting only two possible outcomes: total victory or absolute defeat.
Theodor Dannecker helped Adolf Eichmann administer a continent-wide genocide.
Follow the largest battle in the history of the US Army as experienced on the Road to Berlin permanent exhibit gallery.
For the 106th Infantry Division, the Opening of the Bulge was a Death Blow.
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 US Army's greatest battle 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