Troops, heads of state and other dignitaries, paid tribute to the thousands killed stopping the the Germans in the Battle of ...

Before the German Army's Ardennes offensive, Patton had his staff working on a contingency plan because he sensed their foe might counterattack in the Bastogne region. Under thick cloud cover with ...

While American and British forces were concentrated to the north and south for a final offensive into Germany, the Allies considered the hilly, wooded terrain of the Ardennes a quiet sector safe ...

It was a typically reckless gamble. Hilly and densely forested, the Ardennes was the last place the Allies expected a counter-offensive, so in December 1944, in filthy weather, this was where he ...

The last major German offensive in Europe erupted in the Ardennes Forest 80 years ago when Hitler’s army attacked the U.S.

The Ardennes Offensive, commonly known as the “Battle of the Bulge,” stands as the single bloodiest battle fought by the United States during World War II. Waged in the bitter cold of mid ...

The battle, fought during a bitter, freezing winter, resulted in the death of 19,000 U.S. Army soldiers and more than 47,000 ...

The Ardennes Offensive, commonly known as the “Battle of the Bulge,” stands as the single bloodiest battle fought by the ...

On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous offensive through the quiet, thinly defended Ardennes Forest in Belgium. Adolf Hitler and planners in Berlin achieved total surprise.

Stretching out before me are rows and rows of headstones: 667 British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought and died to halt Hitler’s final, furious assault in 1944, exactly 80 years ago – a conflict ...