Battle of the Bulge

111-SC-236024 - U.S. Inf troops of the 30th Infantry Division on march through Malmedy which was leveled in error by U.S. bombers. Photo by T/3 Jack D. Kitzerow.

A U.S. 3-inch gun M5 in Belgium, in December 1944.

Soldiers of the 393rd Infantry Regiment man a fighting hole on the front lines at Elsenborn Ridge during the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944.

Mottet farm in Marenne after passage of 116 Panzer Division 1945 Battle of the Bulge

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Battle of the bulge - The 101st Airborne troops move out of Bastogne, after having been besieged there for ten days, to drive the enemy out of the surrounding district. Belgium 12/31/44

Three Americans of the 117th Infantry Regiment are about to enter a house where several enemy snipers are holding out. The town where this action took place, is Stavelot, Belgium. The Germans broke through here and took the town, but U.S. forces effected a re-capture. 30th Infantry Division, 117th Regiment, Stavelot, Belgium.

Pvt. Roy McDaniels, Hartford City, Ind., keeps a look out for enemy activity from a 30th Division observation post in Stavelot, Belgium. 1st Battalion, 117th Regiment, 30th Infantry Division.

Infantrymen of 1st U.S. Army gather in Bastogne, Belgium, to regroup after being cut away from their regiment by Germans in the enemy drive in this area. 110 Regt, 28th LNE Div FUSA Bastogne, Belgium

A .50 caliber machine gun and crew are set to repel attack by advancing Germans near Malmedy, 22nd December, 1944. 120th Regiment, 30th Division.

Members of the 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, move past a destroyed American M5 "Stuart" tank on their march to capture the town of St. Vith at the close of the Battle of the Bulge. St. Vith was largely destroyed during the ground battle and subsequent air attack. American forces retook the town on 23 January 1945.

Hitler Jugend Soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Division Captured during the Battle of the Bulge December, 1944.

U.S. infantrymen of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, First U.S. Army, crouch in a snow-filled ditch, taking shelter from a German artillery barrage during the Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads in the Krinkelter woods on 14 December 1944.

Panzergrenadiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division look through abandoned American equipment at Hosfield, Belgium.

26TH INFANTRY AREA NEAR BUTGENBACH: troops positioning antitank gun.

The 1st Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment (United States)U.S. 26th Infantry Regiment passing through the railway viaduct north of Bütgenbach, Belgium, on the Monschauer St. (N647) towards Bütgenbach. The railway viaduct was part of the line running from Losheim/Eifel (Germany) to Trois-Ponts, Belgium, and had been blown up by the retreating German troops.

2nd Lt. Hubert J. Arsenault receiving the Silver Star

Private Romanick, dressed in heavy winter gear, wipes and cleans a 40-mm antiaircraft gun. He is with an antiaircraft battery of the 1st Infantry Division, U.S. First Army. The gun has six swastikas painted on it, one for each German plane it has brought down. Battery B, 103d Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, attached to the 1st Infantry Division.

A roadblock is set up with 30 caliber heavy machine gun, and a tank destroyer is ready for action on Adolf Hitler Strasse, Niederbronn les-Bains, France, by the 1st Battalion, 157th Regiment, 45th Division. Signal Corps Photo 364301, #6AG-27702/ETO-HQ-44-29123

Soldiers of the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion moving up to the line of battle early in the Battle of the Bulge, World War II, before the weather turned.

5th ID Motorized Troops

Brigadier Poett talking with Field Marshal Montgomery during the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945. Left to right: Major-General Eric Bols (CO 6th Airborne Division), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Brigadiers Edwin Flavell (6th Airlanding Brigade), James Hill (3rd Parachute Brigade), Nigel Poett, and Lieutenant-Colonel Napier Crookenden (CO 9th Parachute Battalion).

6TH ARMORED DIVISION TANKS IN SNOWSTORM NEAR WARDIN

99e Infantry Division 'Battle Babies' Krinkelt

9th Armored Engineer Battalion Bastogne memorial service

9th Armored Engineer Battalion Bastogne memorial service2