One morning a few days before Christmas in 1944, Army Pfc. Leo Palma looked out of his foxhole near Bastogne, Belgium, and saw something strange. There in front of him on Dec. 22 were four German ...
In December 1944, during World War II, the town of Bastogne became the center of Germany’s last major offensive in the West. American forces were surrounded, outnumbered, freezing, and running low on ...