(ArtKramr) wrote in
:

On this day in 1944 the Germans began shelling theWirtz-Bastogne
crossroad in an attempt to push the 101st Airborne out of the
defense of Bastogne. They failed. .Temperature went down to
below freezing in the bitter cold of that Belgian winter and
the 101st was down to eating K rations. Those that had them.

Here's a good front-line story I came by:

http://www.skylighters.org/xmas/


Regards...