"Nuts" to surrender
22nd December 1944: Surrounded and with little to confront the German panzers, the 101st Airborne is defiant
In the town of Bastogne the 101st Airborne Division was dug in fighting a determined stand against an increasingly frustrated German spearhead. The Americans had identified elements of four Panzer Divisions, two Infantry Divisions and two Parachute Divisions amongst the forces surrounding the…
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