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American Glider Troops at the Battle of the Bulge U.S. glider troops fought tenaciously to hold the crossroads town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Heres What You Need to Know: Marvie is a quiet town nestled in the Ardennes region of southern Belgium. A farming village with a population of several hundred people, history has almost forgotten the town, but on one day in December 1944, Marvie lay astride a road that led to another town—Bastogne. If the German panzergrenadiers and t...

Hitlers Bodyguards Tried to Take Bastogne—and Failed The division had been ordered to fight through unsuitable terrain, starved of essential supplies, and denied the air support this type of operation demanded. The story of Hitler’s Bodyguard, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte (LAH), in the battle for Bastogne does not begin until after the siege of that city had been raised by the U.S. 4th Armored Division, part of General George Patton’s Third Army, on December 26, 1944. By then ...

The True Story of a Nazi Officers Bloody Blitz Through Belgium While Joachim Peiper’s destruction can be measured by the casualties on both sides and the number of tanks and vehicles destroyed, there is no metric to measure the pain and misery inflicted, only anecdotal evidence. Heres What You Need to Know: During the Battle of the Bulge, German SS Lt. Col. Joachim Peiper led the most powerful armored unit in the campaign’s deepest penetration—but all for naught. As the Belgian town of La...