This video tells the dramatic story of General George S. Patton’s rapid 48-hour pivot during World War II, launched to relieve the besieged town of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. As German ...
When German forces broke through the Ardennes in December 1944, the Allied front seemed dangerously close to collapse. At a ...
The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army reached the city led by a Sherman tank nicknamed the ...