Battle of the Bulge: Siege of Bastogne | Frontlines Ep. 06 | Documentary

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The Siege of Bastogne was a critical moment in the Battle of the Bulge, which was one of the largest and most devastating battles of World War II.
On December 20th, 1944, the Germans launched a massive mechanized attack on the Allied forces in the Ardennes - known as the Battle of the Bulge. The goal was capturing the vital port of Antwerp. The American troops were caught off guard, and the German forces quickly gained ground, pushing the Allies back. The Siege of Bastogne began shortly thereafter, with the German forces attempting to break through the Allied lines and capture the town.
The Battle of the Bulge raged on for several weeks, with both sides suffering heavy losses. However, the Siege of Bastogne was a pivotal moment in the battle, as the American soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division held their ground against the German onslaught. Despite being vastly outnumbered and outgunned, they dug in and fought fiercely, enduring freezing temperatures and heavy artillery fire.
For the next several days, the Germans relentlessly bombarded the town with artillery shells, hoping to break the American resistance. But the men of the 101st Airborne stood firm, and their heroism during the Siege of Bastogne became a symbol of American resilience and determination during the Battle of the Bulge.
Finally, General George S. Patton's Third Army arrived to relieve the besieged American soldiers in Bastogne. The arrival of Patton's tanks and infantry forced the Germans to retreat, effectively ending their hopes of capturing Antwerp. The Siege of Bastogne was over, and the Americans emerged victorious.
The Battle of the Bulge was a brutal and devastating conflict that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides. However, the heroic efforts of the American soldiers during the Siege of Bastogne will forever be remembered as a symbol of bravery and resilience in the face of adversity. The Siege of Bastogne was a crucial moment in the Battle of the Bulge, and its significance cannot be overstated.
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@juliapalmer2344 10 месяцев назад

My Dad was with Patton in the 94th 376 division he was a Sgt and drove a wrecker. He had scrap metal in his forehead to the day he died from the battle of Ardennes. He respected Patton he was always right there fighting with them. Patton was a great General.

@NoNameNo.5 9 месяцев назад

My grandfather was in the 317 infantry, outta Pennsylvania. He came home and had 8 children, I have his pocket bible, when my uncle passes on he will bequeath me a helmet my grandfather brought him. He lost his toes.

@johnwipf9499 8 месяцев назад

There are no generals like that now. We got soft kneed, hand-picked, drown nosed puppets.

@SamuelKinimi-cu7jb 8 месяцев назад

@steveowens913 7 месяцев назад

PATTON was the best, hands down. He was like a great sports coach. He did his homework, had diligently studied wars and strategies. And he wasn't afraid to get dirty, leading the way.

@lawrencetomlinson761 6 месяцев назад

@@johnwipf9499You go tell them, keyboard warrior.

@arichster Год назад

I'm 66 years old and just saw a letter from my mother's "Beau" send the day before the end of the Battle of the bulge. I just learned it was the last day of his life. We can never take anything for granted and learning history ways to ensure that. Rest in peace Sydney.

@frankpienkosky5688 Год назад

my uncle was in the 28th...basically a National Guard outfit the Germans labeled "the bloody buckets" because of the red Keystone patch they wore...got wounded and was taken in and hidden by a local woman...since he was a bit of a ladies man...thin little mustache, and all...he got a good deal of teasing from us as to just how much of an ordeal that really was....

@tonyromano6220 Год назад

Awww

@cfierle 7 месяцев назад

What is a "Beau"

@jessicamartinez3613 4 месяца назад

@@cfierle A boyfriend

@ftevids1715 Год назад

When I was in bootcamp I heard about the Screaming Eagles. They are to be respected. They were/ are the proof for the need of special forces. I admire them because they do what I dont think I can. Our armed forces of WWII are the reason we are not speaking German nor Japanese. We need to give them thanks as well as those in service now. This Memorial Day give that thanks.

@bleepbleep5245 Год назад

no no no ... Jesus is the reason you're not speaking German , Japanese or Ebonics

@brianwarden7250 Год назад

@@bleepbleep5245 It's the Russians who won the war in the west and the China was the end of Japan. Too bad common sense and childish evangelism has replaced historical fact and common sense.

@brianwarden7250 Год назад

Russia were the victors. They sacrificed 20 million and took 11 million germans with them. It's sad that common sense is an uncommon virtue.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

@@bleepbleep5245 I thought God was on the German's side - I even read it on their belts! (Got Mitt Uns)

@stevenm3823 9 месяцев назад

You can thank the Red Army for inflicting 85% of all the casualties suffered by the German Army in all of WWII....the Bulge battle was a mere skirmish compared to the titanic bloody battles on the Eastern Front...and Germany and Japan had zero ability to cross either the Atlantic or the vast Pacific and attack and occupy the U.S. so our English language was never under threat.

@sdgakatbk 8 месяцев назад

I had an uncle who was in the 101st who died at Bastogne. This documentary gives me more of an idea of what he might have gone through. I wish my mom was still around to see this as it was her brother.

@TEXCAP 8 месяцев назад

I'm with you pal. I had an uncle that was killed outright at the Rhine River. He was in the Cobra King which was the first tank to relieve Bastogne at the Battle of the Bulge. It amazes me. These guys were over 5000 miles from home fighting for their lives as well as for the rest of us My mom is his last surviving sibling of 6. James G Murphy 3rd Army 4th Armored Division 37th Tank Battalion Texas.

@sdgakatbk 8 месяцев назад

@@TEXCAP How old's your mom? My mom died about 5 years ago. She was the last of her generation in the family. One thing that was very cool was getting her to talk about family and her memories.

@TEXCAP 5 месяцев назад

@@sdgakatbk She is 88 years old. I am the youngest nephew of his. Ironically, my brother was born in 61 in Germany and I was born in 65 in Japan. My father flew the F100 and F105 in the Cold War and then Vietnam.

@bobfranke2347 3 месяца назад

My Dad's artillery battalion was absorbed into the Patton dash to Bastogne, and he related the severe cold, wrong clothing, severe frostbite and constant ice that slowed tank progress. Miserable.

@bobfranke2347 3 месяца назад

Plus, he related German artillery chopped the tall tree cover which kept the ground warmer and better for defensive foxholes.

@David-mp6vc 5 месяцев назад

What a honor to be a part of Pattons war machine. My uncle was an engineer is Pattons 3rd. My uncle was wounded just prior to the bulge. He lost an eye from an exploded hand grenade spending 2 years in Belgium recovering. Like so many he kept his role to himself until just before his passing.

@jimmieblue6262 7 месяцев назад

My dad was in 101st airborne. Sergeant in Bastone. He never talked about it. He brought a brass plack back from Bastone that showed a schoolhouse with a bell tower in the background showing a paratrooper landing on the roof. And a German general and a American general and the American general saying nuts. My dad said the people of Bastone was so grateful to be liberated that they took shell casings and melted them down a made small placks about 7 inches round and gave them to the men.

@lanpartyanimal5215 5 месяцев назад

@jimmeblue6262 the image on the plaque with the paratrooper hanging from the tower is actually commemorating the 101st's drop into Normandy in the early morning hours of D-Day on June 6th, 1944. It is of the paratrooper that got his parachute stuck on the church spire in the town of St. Marie Egliese and he was killed as a sitting duck by the Germans. If you go there today, there is a dummy dressed as a 101st paratrooper hanging from the church spire in remembrance.

@user-mp5zt7qj5h 2 месяца назад

Plaque not plack

@scotttafil7584 15 дней назад

Was your dad in band of brothers?? Well his caractor

@ramoneortiz 8 месяцев назад

My father was in the all-Puerto Rican 65th Infantry regiment. They were assigned to the 7th Army that protected General Patton’s southern flank while he headed north towards Bastogne. He was in Germany when the war ended in 1945.

@anabe3785 5 месяцев назад

My grand grandfather fought with germans😆

@dante0817 5 месяцев назад

Extend my regards to your father.

@ramoneortiz 5 месяцев назад

@@dante0817 Thank you. He passed away in 2008 at the age of 91. He never spoke of his experience in WWII nor Vietnam. Most of the information I have was acquired by requesting his military records after his passing.

@patrickgrippo 4 месяца назад

The 65th regiment ,fought in Korea as well .the dist rotation of that unit held off a Chinese rt. Army for three days in a man. Pass,I was told when I was stationed in that frozen place. .

@ramoneortiz 3 месяца назад

@@patrickgrippo one of my uncles also fought in Korea with the 65th Infantry Regiment “Borinqueneers”. He shared many harrowing stories of their fighting there.

@paultrumbull984 Год назад

THANK YOU, TO THE GREATEST GENERATION.

@user-kx8iq2rh2x 2 месяца назад

WITHOUT A FREAKING DOUBT

@badwizard1312 Месяц назад

I agree but those who serve are the greatest of every generation.

@TheSaltydog07 Год назад

"Tell Grandpa I'm over here with Patton. He likes him so much." From my Dad, written from Bastogne, December 1944.

@Gmoon917 4 месяца назад

Wow. Amazing history . Love listening to hero’s.

@danielfield3580 Год назад

My father was a 1st Sargent in the 101st Airborne. He very seldom talked about the war, but the conditions warranted commentary. They were in a war zone they were not properly dressed for. He said many of his men were suffering from frost bite on their feet. The wind went right through their clothing. He said his men were incredibly strong fighters, and considering their circumstances they were unbelievable. Very proud that they held out!

@jamesmcgovern9096 Год назад

I’m 😮

@jamesmcgovern9096 Год назад

Yes

@allenasenero1807 Год назад

@@jamesmcgovern9096 🎉qq As

@olliemck60 Год назад

Go airborne!!

@FullNelson007 Год назад

Respect to your father! The greatest generation ever lived.. my grandfather was in Pattons 3rd Army, feild artillery..

@thelonewolf4288 Год назад

As a Belgian citizen the battle of the bulge always fascinated me because of the bravery from the Americans standing there ground even if they were outnumered and in poor conditions the weather the poor clothing the low amunition and the digging in fox holes while there battered by shelling its a miracle they won with alot of heart and courage RIP to the fallen soldiers after seeing what they went trough we shouln'dt complaint about anything and cherish our freedom

@gredw6733 Год назад

American soldiers said the people of Belgium were the best they encountered. My father-in-law was in the 28th Division artillery.

@stevek8829 11 месяцев назад

It's a shame the Germans behaved so beastly to Belgian civilians, even with their end so near.

@stevetravis5418 10 месяцев назад

AMEN

@kystars 10 месяцев назад

I'm American and I also have always been intrigued by history. The Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne was one battle that the 101st was not really prepared for at the time. I remember my dad worked with a former member of the 101st that was there. He said for one thing, they were TRAINED to be surrounded. So to them it was not a frightening thing. My uncle was in the 101st Airborne in Vietnam. They are the US Army's elite unit. They did have some tanks, but not near enough from surrounding area's. They had some tank destroyers also that helped during the battle and confused the Germans. Yes they were outnumbered at all times. Patton meant well and did his very best to get there in time. My dad's friend who was in the 101st during that battle said, WE APPRECIATED Patton trying to get to us, but as it turned out we held our own. The weather broke just in time. You are a Belgian citizen, have you seen the movie BATTLEGROUND? This movie is black and white and was made with real members of the 101st Airborne that had been in that battle. It's a really very good movie and makes you even realize just how desperate the situation really was. The tragic massacre at Malmedy also took place during this time when the German commander Peiper shot US Prisoners. They hung him at the end of the war. But Watch BATTLEGROUND Great movie. Its available for purchase at some streaming sites.

@NoNameNo.5 9 месяцев назад

That’s what we do!

@oledahammer8393 11 месяцев назад

My Uncle was 82nd Airborne in D-Day and the Bulge...they were thrown in as well as the 101st! How he managed to survive both and get home defies imagination.

@kennethcurtis1856 5 месяцев назад

Dad was in the 7thAD as member of an 81mm crew. His brother was in the 82ndAB. They did not realize they were only a few miles apart until they traded 'war stories' after the war.

@charlesmoeller-vu9nq 9 месяцев назад

The Greatest Generation!!! I miss them. Until RU-vid I never realized this and as a young man I missed talking WW2 with them and missed my chance to tell them THANK YOU FOR YOU SERVICE.

@cfierle 7 месяцев назад

You are a good person.

@marcussmith3037 22 дня назад

I miss them too. Greatest generation

@micpic119 6 месяцев назад

My uncle was wounded in this battle by a German mortar round. He survived and lived a long life.

@judithcampbell1705 7 месяцев назад

I'm friends with the great grandson 💙 of Patton. He was just as crazy as the Great General was. I respect the entire Patton line and feel privileged to know him. Thank you 💛 for this excellent documentary.

@JimboTheMick 4 месяца назад

😂😂😂 shut up

@g.e.5723 Год назад

Relying solely on THE movie, (which I've seen probably 25 times), you gotta believe that, (just as depicted), Patton rather smugly said, what was it, "I can attack with 3 divisions in 48 hours, my staff are drawing plans as we speak". What a badass.

@kennethdeanmiller7324 6 дней назад

Oh but "No one saw it coming!" I don't understand why they keep saying that. That was how the German's beat France so quickly earlier in the war.

@johnmaloney7518 Год назад

My dad , Master SGT. 4th Armored division, bronze star, as Daniel said, my dad told me that he could the shoot the enemy but not the weather. God Bless all that were there.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

Some "authority" said you could always manage to dig in the ground. One time, I swear I remember getting sparks trying to dig in on a frozen hill.

@choctawhatcheekid309 Год назад

My uncle was with 101st at Bastogne, never talked much about the war. One of the few things I remember him saying about it was "you'd be surprised how fast you can dig a fox hole in frozen ground when someone is shooting at you".

@theflorgeormix Год назад

Adrenaline

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

All I got was sparks when I tried to dig a foxhole in the frozen ground!

@bigwoody4704 Год назад

that's what shifty powers said in the BoB docu

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

@@bigwoody4704 I assume I wasn't the only one. I didn't notice any "shifty powers." What's that?

@bigwoody4704 Год назад

@@edgarvalderrama1143 I was talking to the O.P. who said "you'd be surprised how fast you can dig a fox hole in frozen ground when someone is shooting at you". I saw an interview with Shfty Powers from the Band of Brothers years ago and that is what he said

@johnharris6655 10 месяцев назад

Once again Montgomery nearly loses the war only to be saved by Patton.

@gregwilliams3210 3 месяца назад

Hands down the greatest purest military man in American History. Truly a reborn hero of the past.

@FT4Freedom 6 месяцев назад

It's a blessing we have commenters who were actually at the battlefield. Amazing generation.

@obersturmfuhrer88 Год назад

My grandfather was a Sargeant in the battle of the bulge. He was in a tank division. He told my brothers and I some really crazy stories when we were young. I respect these men so much even the axis powers. They were all fighters.

@maartenroellekens 7 месяцев назад

One week ago i went to the war museum in Bastogne. Goosebumps from the beginning to the end.

@davidburrow4584 Год назад

My Dad was there, these guys are heroes, freedom is not cheap. Now look what this generation has done

@jdlamb4212 5 месяцев назад

What did you do??

@jackjacky8105 6 месяцев назад

all heroes , as a belgian I'm fascinated about the courage of all these men

@jolie1327 Год назад

My relatives from North Dakota and Wisconsin were in Bastogne and they told me growing up with -40 at night and walking to school in -20 and wind made it possible for them to prevail in the fight, but it was so very difficult. Yes, it does get that cold and brutal in those states. All of my dear ones are now buried in veterans cemeteries. I miss them very much-they had so much courage and perseverance. When we talked they told me the Europeans were so courageous and the soldiers believed they were fighting for freedom.

@gregginter5867 Год назад

My SW Wisconsin grand-father spent 3 days w/others in a bomb crater near Bastogne! He woke for yrs after the war screaming as he relived those harrowing moments in his nightmares!

@johnlawler4241 11 месяцев назад

My mother’s uncle once read a book about Germany.

@DouglasRichardson-er4ky 5 месяцев назад

... I grew up in Madison WI, I moved AWAY from the Midwest as soon as I could that weather made me tough but not stupid 😉 RIP 🥀 to your tough as nails relatives 🫡💜🇺🇸 ... best wishes from warm, sunny, arid Sonoran desert Buckeye Arizona 🌵🤠🐎🇺🇸

@sgomez3047 Год назад

The 101st were and are Badasses! God Bless you boys!

@joshpitts7256 3 месяца назад

👍

@sinisterknight9696 Год назад

Fresh snow absorbs sound too. Cuts your warning time of hearing an attack in half or more. Standing in a forest after fresh snowfall is weird. It’s like being in an isolation chamber

@MrReymoclif714 Год назад

I live in Vermont! Yup!!

@frankkolton1780 Месяц назад

"My" deer hunting grounds are in the middle of 1.5 million acre, thick boreal forest. After big snowstorms the forest looks like a wedding cake, all the trees heavy with snow. One morning like that I took three shots at a buck, instead the ear ringing "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM of the high powered hunting rifle, it sounded like a hushed "foot, foot, foot. My hunting buddy who was a couple of hundred of yards away said my shots sounded like misfires. I did get my deer and was able to put meat in the freezer.

@georgecoffman377 Год назад

I had the privilege to know a tank commander under Patton . He was a life long member of our American Legion and even though I was previously military his stories were so life like it made the hair on your neck stand up.

@boomerrocksUSA 11 месяцев назад

I live just two blocks from an Army surgeon who was airdropped behind Allied lines to assist Patton in his move to relieve the 101st. The story he told me about being airdropped, raiding the liquor supply of an abandoned French town, swapping some of that liquor for boneless steak and turkey to take along to Patton's forward position headquarters, meeting Patton and being invited to dine with him BECAUSE he had brought all that meat was so vivid, it gave me chills. I had never heard a story so vivid, so real (complete with expletives) and so compelling - off the top of a 96 year old man. His memory was razor sharp of those experiences.

@dyerollamorganda5359 Год назад

Patton was the best General the US Army ever had..

@rpbajb 3 месяца назад

Hard to decide between him and Curtis LeMay.

@fasteddie9055 Год назад

I think that Gen. Anthony ''Irish'' Mc Auliffe should have been awarded the Medal of Honor. His famous ''nuts'' reply is still very well known throughout the entire nation. His gallant remark has past the ''test of time'' in every sense of the term.

@fasteddie9055 Год назад

Ike never panicked. He dispatched the 101st Airborne on trucks from their R&R Reims , France rest camps in the rear. Trucks were dispatched from terminals all the way back to Paris. When he met with the generals in Verdun he told them ''no long faces''. Be optimistic. Let's organize and beat the enemy who is ''out in the open''. Gen Patton quickly commented that he could be in position to attack in 48 hrs. His staff was already planning the attack. This scene is shown in the classic movie PATTON (1970). It's no doubt that this battle is a crucial part of American history. I was reading about it in my grammar school history books back in the 50s. I love Gen. McAullife's Irish moxie. He commented ''nuts'' when he heard about the German attack. Later his staff told him to use the word ''nuts'' to reply to a fugazy German surrender demand. That's how ''nuts'' became part of American military history.

@thomasallan8113 Год назад

I visited the Battle of the Bulge museum in Bastogne recently well worth visiting. My uncle was in this battle as an artilliary officer with Patton.

@MWcrazyhorse Год назад

"We fought the wrong enemy". -General Patton.

@wethecaptainnow8111 2 месяца назад

So true

@veritas41photo 24 дня назад

He was absolutely correct, wasn't he?

@kevinkranz9156 Год назад

PATTON WAS AN AMAZING MAN AND GENERAL AMEN 🙏

@felixmbandandayitabi4536 Год назад

Patton was a racist and anti sémite psychopath. He was a good, not a great, general.

@curtblake5219 Год назад

He was a No Bullshit General!!!

@cameronkedas3375 11 месяцев назад

@kevinkranz9156 Yes he was, no doubt about it. But the few things that tainted his reputation and career in the military which is when he hit two soldiers at Sicily. Look it up if you want more information or don’t believe me.

@allencollins6031 10 месяцев назад

@@cameronkedas3375yes that was unfortunate. Maybe he had a little fatigue going on himself. Who knows.

@alcoholfree6381 Год назад

40:30 Look at how old some of these German soldiers have become; a few look to be between 60-70 years old! I’m 70 and can’t imagine me marching out there!! My father was a B-17 bombardier; his plane was shot down on 12/24/1944. He parachuted from around 30,000 feet and he landed on a frozen field in Belgium; he couldn’t walk without crutches for 2 years due to injury to his left leg! This is a great documentary about the great American soldiers and their defeat of the nasty Nazis!! Thank God for all of their saving actions!!

@bleepbleep5245 Год назад

legend has it your big mouth father shoot himself in a left leg for obvious reason ... dig him out and thank him for his service

@bleepbleep5245 Год назад

"great American soldiers" haven't defeat a "nasty Nazis" you brainwashed burgerfoker

@terryeustice5399 8 месяцев назад

This was a great documentary on this battle. Thank you so much. 💯👍🇺🇸

@bugman2509 2 месяца назад

So this is what a cold day in hell is like

@duncanidaho2097 Год назад

Great video. My dad was a US Army infantry PFC and fought in Okinawa and the Philippines, not at the Bulge. This story of the valor of these fighting men has always fascinated me. What pops out at me here is the breakdown of the intel guys and the army brass in lack of any preparation or awareness. Wreaks of egos of generals and commanders in the S2and G2 shops, who cling to pre conceived notions and because of their rank, they stick to it. And don’t encourage anyone below them to think outside the box. The Krauts already attacked through the Ardennes 4 years prior. And just a shoutout to our great combat engineers who figured the routes of attack and moved around blowing bridges which caused no end of frustration and delay to the Hun.

@marrenrue7731 Год назад

Don't forget 1914 and i believe 1870 too

@olliemck60 Год назад

war is hell wherever it is, hope your dad made it through! mine did thankfully.

@shepherdgirl9397 Год назад

My father was one of those brave combat engineers - he commanded a bridge building and blowing up unit who entered the war in Belgium and helped create a way for Patton’s tanks to get out of the Battle of the Bulge and get to Germany. Sadly , he never once discussed the war . I learned these things from my mother after his death. Okinawa and Philippines were hell. Here’s to our fathers !🍻

@williamkrusejr1846 Год назад

They are great Heroes thank you for telling their story it's well worth hearing

@joflory133 9 месяцев назад

My dad was at the bulge he even mentioned a frozen cow

@georgeince4136 Год назад

My father was in the artillery during the bulge. He had the greatest respect for the members of the 101st and the others there.

@user-oh9nt5zg9m 4 месяца назад

@phil20_20 Год назад

Stop saying no-one saw it coming: Patton saw days ahead of time. That's why he was prepared to march up there. These type of situations always involve the bad choices of a few leaders, not conventional wisdom.

@johncarpenter3801 Год назад

Ike recognized the counter-offensive immediately.

@GatorNick Год назад

🎯

@NicJackson83 Год назад

What was the bad decision?

@paulcombee2209 Год назад

My uncle Leroy was General Pattons mail carrier He served in the Generals 3Rd Army .After Pattons untimely death My uncle was detailed to serve as security police officer at the Nuremberg Trials ..He was only 17 in the beginning and 19 years old going on 40 when he was transferred .

@stevek8829 Год назад

What did paton have, a crystal ball? He didn't "see" anything.

@JohnDavis-yz9nq Год назад

Best documentary I have ever seen about this battle. My father was with Patton. He was in a anti aircraft half track division.

@unitedwestand5100 Год назад

LOL This is a terrible documentary. Possibly one of the worst, and inaccurate, I've ever seen

@JohnDavis-yz9nq Год назад

@@unitedwestand5100 most accurate and the best one that I have ever seen. I saved it so that I can watch it again.

@unitedwestand5100 Год назад

@@JohnDavis-yz9nq ,. Parts of both the 10th, and 9th ADs, the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion 35th and 158th Combat Engineer Battalions 58th and 420th Armored Field Artillery Battalions 755th and 969th Field Artillery Battalions of 8th Corps, were fighting in and around Bastogne before the 101st got there. Also, the 101st was not then, or now, an elite division.

@TheDoctor1225 Год назад

@@JohnDavis-yz9nq Good for you. It's amazing that someone who hated this "inaccurate" documentary had to take the time to post the same thing over and over and over ad nauseum instead of just posting their opinions once and moving on. Must REALLY be bored, or a troll.

@JohnDavis-yz9nq Год назад

@@TheDoctor1225 i really enjoyed this documentary because it showed the everyday life of the men that were there. This person that posted about the inaccuracies doesn’t really know because this person was not there. I will believe the inaccuracies when I hear it from a combat veteran that was there. Thanks for your comment.

@meltx5371 Год назад

My great uncle was in this battle, Last name Vest lived into his 90s

@Dave-in-France Год назад

Very interesting, credible documentary of this substantial and savage battle. A huge "Thank you" to all who were present and did their bit.

@danlindeke2561 11 месяцев назад

When asked "What unit?", soldier said ,"I'm with Patton!.

@joehowarth8093 Год назад

Jim “Pee Wee” Martin….what a soldier and hero!! Rest easy Jim…

@olliemck60 Год назад

My father was with Patton, my uncle with Hodges, both in the Battle of the Bulge all they said is it was cold as hell, and the Germans were good soldiers and they sent them to hell.

@user-pt4xw6rb8s 6 месяцев назад

That's why they are called the greatest generation. I had two uncle's who fought in WW2 they were tough tough men.

@alananderson5202 Год назад

My uncle was on a howitzer during the Battle of the Bulge. He said that they went through mountains of shells.

@frankpienkosky5688 Год назад

singular probing attacks by the Germans was their undoing as the artillery just shifted to meet the threat...tanks don't like to be on the receiving end of plunging fire....

@brianfitzpatrick1183 Год назад

My father was on a 155mm howitzer during the battle. He said pretty much the same thing. Plus the cold, he talked about the cold

@darthcheney7447 Год назад

Brings a tear to the eye.

@user-fd6fl1vu8v 9 месяцев назад

Patton was so brilliant!!!

@user-fd6fl1vu8v 9 месяцев назад

Bruce Best.

@joeorlando8226 9 месяцев назад

My Godfather was a Sniper in Patton's fighting 45th Division. He fought at the Bulge. His Division and Tank Army were sent from Southern France up to the Bulge to rescue the 101st Division.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

My father was not there, not even my grandfather. I was there ! (last 7 months all over Europe but starting with Von Rundstedt in the Ardennes. 5th Div Patton's 3rd Army. Was lucky in never having to retreat but did suffer a hairy German counterattack after a river crossing. Hard for me to believe and I've had doubters of my comments, too. It doesn't make me sore, as I can't believe my own life. (I can't even believe "reality" After the war I experienced two years of "Wild Westing" in Mexico's "Hot Country." (Daily trash truck pickup of previous night's casualties in communal farm) 97 yrs

@parsnip82 Год назад

Thank you for your service, Edgar Valderrama. Congratulations on being part of the Greatest Generation.

@stevek8829 Год назад

I'm glad you came home. Thank you for commenting. As a young grunt in VN, I used to think are least I'm not at Iwo, Dday, Bulge or Chosin, so I felt lucky.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

@@stevek8829 "War is (always) hell!"

@richardjohnson1261 Год назад

God bless you, sir. And thank you for your service.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

@@richardjohnson1261 Thanks.

@srothbardt 11 месяцев назад

Patton saw it coming.

@janiceduke1205 Год назад

"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Creighton Abrams.

@markwilliford4567 Год назад

Visited Fort Clark, Texas (1.5 hours West from San Antonio. Patton was Stationed there. Fascinating insights into his younger years. Fort is in Bracketville, Texas.

@johnkochen7264 Год назад

The entrenching tool could be used as a shovel or a pick but it was also handy for braining someone if you are out of ammo or in hand-to-hand combat.

@keithranker3908 Год назад

What the historian said is true, but the Panzer Lehr division commander, listening to a local farmer, led his main unit down a paved toad towards Bastogne. Unfortunately for him, that road became dirt , which quickly became almost impassibly under all of that German traffic. That delay gave the Americans the extra day or so they needed to prepare Bastogne’s defenses. The German division cdr, a bachelor, was charmed for several hours by a captured American Army nurse, diverting his attention at a time when he needed to be moving his division along.

@Johnny-um6sd Год назад

Patton ) was one of the best generals in history) America needs another general like patton) a WINNER)

@richardmyers5035 Год назад

I think we had one. Stormin Norman,

@DouglasRichardson-er4ky 5 месяцев назад

... our armed forces are still the best in the world the tip of the spear 🫡💜🇺🇸

@johnhaggart9376 8 месяцев назад

I served in The Airborne. We absolutely had the entrenching tool.

@Stats2BackIt 7 месяцев назад

My dad still has his he was 4th ID and later 75th Rgt back in the 80s lol

@raywhitehead730 Год назад

General Troy Middleton, defending Bastogne, had a Very long and Brilliant career! From fighting and commanding from Mexico, to WW1 France, North Africa, Sicilly, Italy, Normandy, Germany. Nowadays, little noticed. One the US best. He ended up a four star! Same as Patton.

@cmguy777 Год назад

Great documentary. Thanks.

@teedtad2534 Год назад

Both Americans and Germans fought in the WORSE conditions!! Unbelievable fighting will with LESS man power the Americans had! Brave men!

@paulcombee2209 Год назад

My dad was drafted but had a was decorved to have a heart condition , Making him unsuitable for service ,and he was sent back home .and about every other one of his Sr year class mates that were drafted with my dad died in the battle of the bulge ..This bothered my dad all his life ..💔

@johns5263 11 месяцев назад

I still have my great grandpa's machete and shovel from WW2 and I also have I believe it's a 72mm tank shell I also wore his long johns from the war and let me tell you, those cotton long johns were the best I've ever wore. Honored to call him family. Went into France, Italy and North Africa and was hit by friendly fire and had shrapnel in his back until he died in 2016 at the age of 99 and a day before his 100th bday. Miss ya poppy. "Sure shot" is what his military badge said.

@marsdenk.6162 11 месяцев назад

🙏🙏

@cameronkedas3375 11 месяцев назад

my great grandpa was a paratrooper in World War II. He was in the 82nd Airborne and parachuted into Sicily and the Salerno Beachhead. He was transferred from the 82nd to the 101st Airborne after his unit was withdrawn from Italy and jumped into Normandy on D-Day and Market Garden in Holland. He also served at Bastogne. After the war had ended, he volunteered for railway service in Europe until 1947 in the Army Service Forces. I am also in the same Native American tribe (Choctaw) as 1Sgt. Jake McNiece who was the leader of the “Filthy Thirteen”/ 1st demolition section of the HQ company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Regiment, 101st division. They were the 101st troopers who wore warpaint and Mohawks on Normandy. He jumped into Normandy and Holland until he voluntarily joined the pathfinders where he jumped into Bastogne and as an observer with the 17th Airborne in Operation Varsity

@mudcatz3564 Год назад

"No member of the 101st has ever said they needed to be rescued..." Resupplied, certainly but they held the line. 10th Armored and subordinate units included, yes, but that line didn't break despite the odds. That, my friends, is the United States Army.

@DonMeaker Год назад

Airborne units are trained to be surrounded. If anything, it must have been a comfort to have armor and more than usual amount of artillery.

@mudcatz3564 Год назад

DonMeaker, agreed. Definitely agreed. And they pulled this off woefully short of supplies going in. The right stuff indeed!

@andyboog2010 Год назад

Finally someone mentioned the 10th armored. They do not get enough credit for their role in this battle. My grandpa was in the 10th and it always pissed him off that they are rarely mentioned. He was a machinist and had a mobile shop that drove right there with the movement.

@mudcatz3564 Год назад

Richard Anderson, I wholeheartedly agree.10th Armored was vital to the defense and, yes, the 101st got all the press. The more I've studied this engagement, the more I've become convinced that the miracle of Bastogne lay in that disparate units were thrown into the cauldron and worked as a unified unit despite what their shoulder patches said. All respect and salutes to your grandfather. Such us the stuff that unsung heroes are made.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

@@andyboog2010 If I remember correctly, the 5th Div. collective opinion was that the Tenth Armored was second only to our favorite Fourth Armored.

@randywarren7101 Год назад

Why does everyone seem to think the 101st Airborne Division was rescued? They consider themselves relieved, as they called themselves," The Battered Bastards of the Bastion of Bastogne!"

@frankpienkosky5688 Год назад

matter of semantics...101 was a prideful bunch...still are....

@jimreilly917 Год назад

Patton’s ego.

@UkrainianPaulie Год назад

Remember no 101st veteran ever said they needed to be " rescued" by Patton. Being a retired Paratrooper myself, I am reminded of the WW2 paratrooper saying. "We're surrounded. Those poor bastards".

@nicoleking772 Год назад

Paratroopers are supposed to be surrounded. Patton relieved the 101st. They dint need no rescuing

@josephmclaughlin9404 11 месяцев назад

Troopers have a job to do but so did the infantry. Patton’s great strength in my opinion, was preparation and total commitment although I was not there I am sure that the 101st welcomed the presence of 3rd Army troops. One outfit did not win the war.

@robertcaccavalla6469 Год назад

This is a great body of historical information. It is very significant and depicts the amount of everything significant to what America truly is.

@lwpathi4296 9 месяцев назад

My farther is doing main role this operation but he is none sung hero..💪

@1003196110031961 Год назад

They weren’t called the greatest generation for nothing.God bless them all.

@GatorNick Год назад

Documentary is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic

@ronaldforkings567 10 месяцев назад

Excellent research

@hottubrabbits4763 7 месяцев назад

I can't imagine what those men endured in brutal, freezing conditions with no way to get warm and low on food, as well as ammo. I seriously wonder if the current generation of servicemen and women could face that challenge and prevail. The soldiers in WWII had grown up during the Great Depression and had known hardship their whole lives, and were just unbreakable.

@FT4Freedom 6 месяцев назад

Hard times bring up strong men.

@dougmoore5252 Год назад

Very complete and accurate description of 101 strategy and tactics. Thank you

@davidmummery5956 Год назад

No member of the 101st airborne to their dying days has ever said they needed Patton to relieve them from anything.

@gredw6733 Год назад

They said they appreciated being relieved, but that they NEVER needed to be rescued!

@OvertonMcGehee Год назад

This is a good documentary, but it focuses on the 101st Airborne troops and fails to mention the other units that were also there and that were so key to the defense of Bastogne, in part because they had artillery and tanks, which the 101st did not. They were: Combat Command B of the 10th Armored Division CCR of the 9th Armored Division 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion 35th and 158th Combat Engineer Battalions 58th and 420th Armored Field Artillery Battalions 755th and 969th Field Artillery Battalions of 8th Corps The 101st were amazing, of course, and had already distinguished themselves at D-Day and Market Garden. They accomplished a miracle at Bastogne, and General McAuliffe of the 101st was in command, But the soldiers of the 101st were not alone in that victory. Almost half of the 23,000 American defenders of Bastogne were from the other 8 units involved in the defense of Bastogne.

@bigwoody4704 Год назад

Yes i forget the artillary unit but they played their hand magnificently.Kept moving around from the center and any lines getting attacked could be reached quickly. Any where jerry attacked could be met with shelling. The Germans later said they thought there was much more Artillary than there really was. Had the Wehrmacht bought an attack on all fronts @ Bastogne instead of one sector at a time things may have been different

@gregmiell3037 11 месяцев назад

Thanks. I did not know this.

@jeffenglish9344 9 месяцев назад

6th Armored Division…..

@reidvanness5429 6 месяцев назад

My father was in the ninth armoured

@kristinsreese Год назад

Blurring the atrocities of war is an insult to everyone that was wounded and/or killed.

@danahatch9140 Год назад

Blame RU-vid, not this channel. Because I'm sure this channel and all the others that constantly get bitched at for this horrible offense, are aiming to insult those who were killed or wounded. Geez.

@sethmorgan8258 Год назад

But RU-vid will show the murder of a police officer with no problem totally uncensored.

@davidb2206 Год назад

True. Especially the atrocities committed by Eisenhower (smothering to death German P.O.W.'s in train cars, TWICE!) and the Allies.

@soldier_of_yahusha4751 Год назад

Amen. Our generation and every generation needs to see the atrocities of total war. To realize what the men and women of the world were willing to sacrifice.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

If also strikes me as offensively stupid.

@JCaroleClarke Год назад

Bastogne was the Gettysburg of this fight. The 1st Brit Parachute, the 82nd & 101st American Airborne had to hold that critical town until relief could arrive. They were like Gen. Buford's Union cavalry waiting for General Reynolds (Patton). This was Hitler's last gasp so everything banked on this thrust into Belgium. At the Verdun meeting Patton said he could have 3 armored divisions up there in 2 days. Everyone there knew that it was a 4-day trek in that winter weather. What Patton told nobody was that he had started those divisions 2 days before. Two days later they entered the Bastogne perimeter. My father was a lieutenant with an armored infantry unit of the 4th Armored Division. Patton remembered history.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

I remember the 5th Div. thought of the 4th Armored as incomparable; in a class of its own.

@kennethcurtis1856 5 месяцев назад

Have you read the complete battle for St. Vith? St. Vith took the brunt of the initial German onslaught.

@lawrencemyers3623 Месяц назад

I'm sorry, but you're confusing Operation Market-Garden with the Bulge. The British 1st Airborne was decimated at Arnhem and wouldn't go on another operation til the Spring of 1945, going to Norway to disarm and round up surrendering German troops. The 82nd wasn't at Bastogne, but was miles to the north around Werbomont taking on the 1st SS and 2nd SS Panzer Divisions. The 101st of course was at Bastogne, but they were far from alone. Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division, CCR 9th Armored, 705th TD Battalion, Team Snafu (remnants of the 28th Infantry Division) plus numerous artillery units were also part of the garrison. Great book to read on the Bulge: "A Time For Trumpets" by Charles MacDonald. MacDonald was there as an infantry company commander with the 2nd Division, was later the Army's Deputy Chief Historian and wrote a number of books on WW2, including a memoir which is considered a classic.

@lawrencemyers3623 Месяц назад

@@kennethcurtis1856: I agree. The fighting around St. Vith is definitely overlooked. All most folks remember (if they remember at all) is the surrender of the 422nd and 423rd IRs on December 19th, giving the impression that the defense collapsed like the proverbial house of cards. There's far more to the story than that.

@JCaroleClarke Месяц назад

I know about Market Garden - one lone road from bridge to bridge. When writing the above I trusted my memory of a map I'd seen. It's possible I put the 82nd too close to Bastogne to be considered as being part of that fight. But I do still feel there are comparisons to the expectations felt at Gettysburg. Nothing is ever exact. But thank you for being so exact.@@lawrencemyers3623

@RobertSmith-gl5vs Год назад

Patton was that type of a General, never give up, fight, go forward, don’t hesitate, and he led his army….other Generals are in the rear, cautious, undecided, that is why the battle of the bulge occurred…….

@brianwarden7250 Год назад

It was about an intel fracture and lack of supplies more than anything. This was about common sense becoming an uncommon virtue not at all about battleground leadership.

@edgarvalderrama1143 Год назад

"His guts, our blood" is what the infantry said - but more as a matter of fact than with resentment.

@joanmaccarone6061 Год назад

So very true, at one point Eisenhower held needed tires..

@veritas41photo 24 дня назад

Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute for one year before transferring to West Point. Anyone who went to VMI (in those days) learned about Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson's story as a general whose primary military strategy was, once you have the upper hand on the battlefield, pursue the enemy relentlessly until you KILL THEM ALL. No mercy! Maybe Patton used this himself...

@2serveand2protect 11 месяцев назад

This is a SPECTACULAR documentary! (big thanks for it!). How come I didn't see it before??

@Frankyc1953 Год назад

My Father was part of the Airgroup that participated on Christmas Day. From what I can tell, the Germans inflicted severe damage, with a high American death toll. A very nasty couple of weeks....

@mjc11a Год назад

Completely unnecessary to blur the images. Utterly disgusting and insulting to those men who were there. My father was one of them.

@MrReymoclif714 Год назад

Insulting to the Intelligence of all Americans!

@uncjim Год назад

Thank you for the history lesson.

@markusrobinson3858 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this superb account of the Battle of Bastogne. The one dissonant chord in this wonderful documentary is the very last remark "and by some the greatest of all time." That is sadly a remark that does disservice to all of the other utterly heroic American military campaigns in its illustrious history. Consider for example the heroic self-sacrificial charge of the 1st Minnesota on the second day at Gettysburg. All 262 men of the 1st Minnesota executed a bayonet charge against 1,500 Confederate troops of Wilcox's Alabama brigade. Recognizing that the Union center was about to be broken at Cemetery Ridge, and knowing he needed time to bring up reserves, Major General Winfield commanded the 1st Minnesota's Colonel William Colvill "Colonel! Do you see those colors? Take them!" The 1st Minnesota charged and bought Winfield time to bring up the reserves. Their sacrifice? Only 47 men of the 1st Minnesota (and Colonel Colvill was not one of them) were alive to hear the command "Fall Back!" Are then not as heroic as the brave men of the 101st?

@jgonzalez101 Год назад

What a great "Battle of the Bulge" Documentary! Really interesting and informative!

@frankpienkosky5688 Год назад

it explains why the Germans were not able to just run over them with their tanks....

@user-jy2cn3cn4t 6 месяцев назад

I have many friends whose Fathers and Grandfathers who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. They said that Germans were tough,as usual,and it was the coldest they had ever been. But they atuck it out and then things got easier when the skies cleared and our mighty Air Force destroyed the Germans.

@quantum_cricket8555 Год назад

Great doc👍U got yourself a new subscriber😘

@craterus-ii9im Год назад

Well done program thanks.

@ronaldedson496 Год назад

10th armored arrived in Bastogne 10 hours before Patton showed up.

@bobburke9840 22 дня назад

7th AD also

@legendarychessmatch Год назад

One of the best general in WW2

@ianraybetron4300 Год назад

It's the same fighting spirit of the 101st Airborne...that the Ukrainian Army have now...no wonder that they are now the world's no. 1 army...

@littlemac844 5 месяцев назад

This is a fantastic video and recount of The Battle of The Bulge. I am an avid Historian. This is very detailed. Fantastic job

@daviddaniel438 Год назад

God bless you all family members and friends

@dougmoore5252 Год назад

That was very near the best presentation of the battle of the bulge, with one critical point. Early on the existence of the 10th Armor units functioning in the area was of critical importance and McAuliffe was very aware of this, and utilized this weapon very effectively to blunt the German and then use his artillery. Of the 101st was what held up the attacking German troops. The point is this was more complex than the impression this makes.

@johnspurrell1200 Год назад

There was a lot of US artillery and ammunition in Bastogne that provided support to the Airborne units who had no artillery when they arrived. Great infantry but no assigned artillery organic to the airborne units carried in trucks. Present in Bastogne: CCB of the 10th Armored Division CCR of the 9th Armored Division 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion 35th and 158th Combat Engineer Battalions 58th and 420th Armored Field Artillery Battalions 755th and 969th Field Artillery Battalions of 8th Corps

@jerryware5749 Год назад

@@johnspurrell1200 Glad you pointed this out and one of the artillery units was an African-American unit that sang in rhythm as they operated their guns.

@MW-bi1pi 6 месяцев назад

Overall excellent Documentary with one glaring inconsistency. My Dad was in 35th Tank Battalion, Combat Command A, 4th Armored Division. First contact with the 101st Airborne was made by Combat Command R's Lt. Boggess in the Sherman Tank named Cobra King. This is what REALLY happened; 4th Armored Combat Commands A,B, and R for reserve, were fighting north in a trident with CCB on the left, CCA in the center and CCR under Col. Creighton Abrams on the far right. They were all stuck by heavy, dug in German resistance. CCB and CCA attacked to fix the enemy in place while CCR on the far right disengaged suddenly and swung around all the way to the left of CCB, like in a sweep around the left end in Football. They were able to find the southern road into Bastogne and relieve the town. That particular tactical maneuver was an extremely complicated move of genius and skill rarely if ever equaled before or since. The 4th Armored was trained by General John 'Tiger Jack' Wood, whom Gen. Patton always said could "out Patton, Patton".

@kennethsanders963 4 месяца назад

By far the greatest depiction movie I've seen is "band of brothers" staring Tom Hanks. 101 st. airborne stood their ground and fought with bravery, courage, and pure guts. I am a veteran of 101 st light infantry (PP1) .I am proud of them and my regiment .

@JudyDuduks-gm4rb 8 месяцев назад

My father was there with the Big Red One. Was wounded, but survived and went on as far as Czechslovachia.

@CraigBaughan-mg3hf Год назад

The Bulge came about after American divisions, caught in the folds of the Seigfreid Line retreated, General Eisenhower committing all of the airborne forces to make a stand. It was a bitter cold day in the middle of January 1945, and the paratroopers, having given their blankets to the wounded, shivered, packed like sardines in the foxhole. There was a canteen cup full of water on a shelf which began to shake. The sky turned as dark as late evening and a deafening roar scared the men. Was it the end of the world? A volcano? It was the U.S. Army Air Corps, with six or seven flights of the 16,000 aircraft committed to the Bulge, flights stacked over flights, telescoping over Model's communications lines, catching the enemy in the open with no antiaircraft or fighter cover. Repeated in two weeks, the enemy was routed, not to advance again. I knew one of the paratroopers in that foxhole.