As the Battle of the Bulge erupted across the Ardennes, soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division found themselves defending ...

In the frozen chaos of December 1944, Bastogne became the key crossroads Germany had to take if the Ardennes offensive was going to succeed. Inside the pocket, McAuliffe pulled together scattered ...

Band of Brothers is available on Amazon Prime, HBO Now and HBO Go. HBO’s 2001 mini-series Band of Brothers is about the men of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the ...

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, accompanied by Presidential Secretary Stephen Early and rows of high-polished brass, journeyed to a historic World War I battlefield last week to honor the World War II ...

Bastogne (normal pop. 4,500) suddenly became important. If the left prong of the German offensive were to be slowed in its thrust toward the Meuse it would have to be done there, where the Liège-Arlon ...

One of the most famous divisions in the U.S. Army officially took over command of the Joint Task Force guarding the southern border on Friday. The 101st Airborne, dubbed “Screaming Eagles,” officially ...

The town of Bastogne, in Belgium, is world famous for the siege that took place there in World War II, in December 1944. The main protagonist of that siege was a unit of United States Army ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division march down a street in Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Some of these men lost their ...

It was a cold winter in the forested Ardennes region between Belgium and Luxembourg when German forces launched a surprise attack on the Allies on December 16, 1944, beginning what is now known as the ...

Eighty years ago on Jan. 16, Allied armies (U.S. and British) forced a German retreat that ended the last major German offensive of World War II, “The Battle of the Bulge.” In December 1944, a ...