the entire battalion surrendered because of york. a generation later the army returned to europe and embarked on a crusade. the rangers scaled the cliffs of normandy, the 101st airborne leapt in the danger from above. illuminated only by enemy flairs, explosions and burning aircraft. they threw back the nazi empire with lightning of their own from the barrels of the m-1 rifle. in the darkness of the battle of the bulge with nazis on every side one soldier is reported to have said, they've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. [ applause ] outnumbered american warriors fought through the bunkers of