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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 .
American resistance on the northern shoulder of the offensive, around Elsenborn Ridge, and in the south, around Bastogne, blocked German access to key roads to the northwest and west which they had counted on for success. This congestion and terrain that favored the defenders, threw the German advance behind schedule and allowed the Allies to ...
the defeat of this southern panzer army was made sure by the stand of bastogne. to the south of the bulge, an american army had been attacking eastward. it was called now to halt and wheel to the north. its nearest corps moved out upon this mission. from out of the corps, one division struck towards bastogne. the weather at last turned cold.
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge. New York: Penguin. ISBN 9780143109860. Dupuy, Trevor N. (1994). Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 – January 1945. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-016627-4. MacDonald, Charles B. (2002). A Time For Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. New York: Perennial.
Bastogne is a two-player wargame where one player controls the Allied forces and the other player controls the Germans. With a small map and only 100 counters, the game has been characterized as "simple". The game has two scenarios, the siege of the town by German forces, and the relief of the town by an Allied task force. [2]
It was one of several battles on December 16, 1944 constituting the opening of Germany's Ardennes counteroffensive (more commonly known as the "Battle of the Bulge"). The town of St. Vith , a vital road junction, was close to the boundary between the 5th and Sepp Dietrich ’s Sixth Panzer Army , the two strongest units of the attack.
By 21 December 1944, the German momentum during the Battle of the Bulge had begun to dissipate, and it was evident that the operation was on the brink of failure. It was believed that an attack against the United States Seventh Army further south, which had extended its lines and taken on a defensive posture to cover the area vacated by the United States Third Army (which turned north to ...
The Bastogne War Museum is a World War II museum focusing on the Battle of the Bulge. It is located a few kilometers northeast of the Bastogne city center in the Belgian province of Luxembourg . The museum is located on the former Bastogne Historical Centre site and was opened on March 21, 2014 after four years of work.