U.S. Army engineers emerge from the woods and move out of defensive positions after fighting in the vicinity of Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge.
A convoy of the American first army traveling through Belgium near Fosse on the way to St Vith.
A column of M10 Wolverine tank destroyers from the 2nd Armored Division, VII Corps, United States First Army drives past shell splintered trees on the snow covered road outside of Samree on January 11, 1945 in the Samree district of La Roche-en-Ardenne, located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium.
A soldier of the United States 101st Airborne Division occupies a defensive snow covered dugout foxhole position with a M1919 Browning 30 caliber medium machine gun during the Battle of the Bulge, circa January 1945, near Bastogne, Belgium.
Members of the American 82nd Airborne Division trudging through the snow behind a tank during the Battle of the Bulge.
Allied troops capture the key village of Samree, east of La Roche, Belgium, on a ridge which looks across 9 miles of rolling country towards Houffalize.
US troops looking for German snipers, in the American-held part of the Belgian town of La Roche, 1944.
Soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division march down a street in Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944.
A blazing Sherman tank abandoned during the Battle of the Bulge and fight for the Belgian town of Manhay on Dec. 31, 1944.
Refugees leaving the Belgian town of Bastogne, 1945.
A dead German soldier covered in snow on the road to the town of La Roche in the northern half of the Ardennes, which was captured by British and American troops, 1944.
Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, Commander of the 101st Airborne Division, who flew the Atlantic and passed through enemy lines in a jeep to fight with his men at Bastogne, during the German counter-offensive in Belgium, 1945.
Hard going for US tanks at Amonines, Belgium, on the northern flank of the ‘battle of the bulge’. A tank on the road passes another being dug out of the snow, 1945.
A grave marked with a cross and a German helmet and rifle marking the final resting place of a German soldier killed in action near Bastogne, 1945.
An undated photograph of U.S. Army paratroopers of Company A 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division, pulling a crude sled in the snow to bring in a fellow soldier for medical aid at Born, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge from Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945. The story of the battle gets an eyewitness accounting from an Army field hospital nurse, Lt. Katherine Nolan. The desperate attempt by the Germans to break the Allies’ advance across Europe was the costliest American battle in history, with more than 82,400 killed, wounded, and captured in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg.
U.S. troops of the 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard, who had been regrouped into security platoons for defense of Bastogne, Belgium, march down a street, Dec. 20, 1944.
American engineers pushing a German truck off the road during the Battle of the Bulge, 1945.
An Allied field artillery crew clear away the empty shell cases during a lull in the fighting for Samree, Belgium, in the ‘Battle of the Bulge’, 1945.
Battle of the Bulge tanks and infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s Company G, 740th Tank Battalion, 504th Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, push through the snow toward their objective near Herresbach, Belgium, Jan. 28, 1945.
German equipment abandoned in the snow in the Belgian town of Houffalize, shortly after a period of intense bombardment, January 1945.
Soldiers from a unit of the United States Ninth Army examine the wreckage of a Wehrmacht Flakpanzerkampfwagen IV Flak 38 Flakvierling “Wirbelwind” self-propelled anti-aircraft armored vehicle, armed with a quadruple mount of 20 mm cannon, after it was hit by aircraft of the 9th US Air Force on December 26,1944 south of Bastogne in Belgium. 9th US Air Force Official Photo.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, left, speaks to Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, January 1945. Patton led the Third Army in a sweep across France and an instrumental role in defeating the German counter offensive in the Ardennes. Patton commanded the Third Army from 1944 to 1945. Third Army’s unit motto “Patton’s Own”, “Third, Always First” is in honor of Patton.