β Scribed by Leo Barron; Don Cygan
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
On Christmas morning, 1944, there was little reason to celebrate....
As the Battle of the Bulge raged, a small force of American soldersβincluding the famed 101st Airborne division, tank destroyer crews, engineers, and artillerymenβwas completely surrounded by Hitler's armies in the Belgian town of Bastogne. Taking the town was imperative to Hitler's desperate plan to drive back the Allies and turn the tide of the war. The attack would come just before dawn.
As the outnumbered, undersupplied Americans gathered in church for services or shivered in their snow-covered foxholes on the fringes of the front lines, freshly reinforced German forces of men and tanks attacked. The battle was up close and personal, with the cold, exhausted soldiers of both armies fighting for every square foot of frozen earth.
In the end, the Allied forces would hold the town of Bastogne, with the hard-won victory boosting morale and sounding the death-knell...
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