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Battleground is a 1949 American war film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, and James Whitmore.It follows a fictional company of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as they fight in the siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, in World War II.
The siege of Bastogne (French pronunciation: ⓘ) was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp .
Liberty Road (French La voie de la Liberté) is the commemorative way marking the route of the Allied forces from D-Day in June 1944. It starts in Sainte-Mère-Eglise, in the Manche département in Normandy, France, travels across Northern France to Metz and then northwards to end in Bastogne in Belgium, on the border of Luxembourg.
Bastogne Pathfinder Jake McNiece: Bastogne Pathfinder John Dewey Bastogne Pathfinder Max Majewski Bastogne Pathfinder William Coad Bastogne Pathfinder George Baran W.I.A, Normandy Roland "Frenchy" R. Baribeau K.I.A, Normandy Robert S. "Ragsman" Cone P.O.W, Normandy Charles "Maw" Darnell P.O.W, Normandy James F. "Piccadilly Willy" Green
Augusta Marie Chiwy (6 June 1921 [a] – 23 August 2015) was a Belgian nurse who was a volunteer during the Siege of Bastogne in 1944. She worked with the U.S. Army physician John Prior and with fellow Belgian nurse Renée Lemaire, treating injured soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.
Cobra King [b] was first used in combat in 1944. It was knocked out during fighting in France during November 1944, and later repaired and re-issued. [3]In late 1944 the tank was assigned to Company C of the 37th Tank Battalion of the American 4th Armored Division, which was the spearhead of General Patton's Third Army racing toward Bastogne. [5]
The battalion sailed for Normandy in July, and was landed at Utah Beach on the 18th, equipped with M18 Hellcat tank destroyers. [2] After two weeks of being held in reserve, they were moved to the front line on the 31st [1] and attached to a task force of Third Army which was assigned to capture the ports along the north coast of Brittany; [3] it pushed through Avranches and turned westwards ...
they organized under fire from enemy guns. in this way began the siege now famed in history. the lines of bastogne held firm, though the storm beat all around. by direct assault the enemy armored corps tried to gain the city. its men and metal were driven back at every point. and so the defeated armor flowed on around bastogne . . . 8. . . .