I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I’ve known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of World War II European ...

He was among Gen. George Patton's forces as they relieved the Battered Bastards of Bastogne, who famously dug in and held on against brutal cold and German resistance at the Battle of the Bulge.

He was among Gen. George Patton's forces as they relieved the Battered Bastards of Bastogne, who famously dug in and held on against brutal cold and German resistance at the Battle of the Bulge.

Metcalf grew up in St. Paul and served as Gen. George Patton’s personal chaplain during World War II.

The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army reached the city led by a Sherman tank nicknamed the ...

At a meeting of the High Command, General Dwight Eisenhower asked if anyone could relieve the 101 st Airborne at Bastogne. General George Patton said he could attack in 24 hours.

Mathieu Billa, historian director of the Bastogne War Museum, told AFP that the then 59-year-old Patton reached the summit of his glory when he relieved Bastogne.

In May 2018, the newly renamed "Remembrance Bowl," sponsored by Patton Legacy Sports, was added to the list of D-Day commemoration events and was held in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Normandy.

Patton wouldn’t make any decision without consulting Koch. Bradley, Eisenhower, and Patton surveying the damage in Bastogne. (National Archives) By 1944 it was a very well-oiled machine.

In the book I write that as Patton pushes towards Bastogne he essentially said, “Chaplains are going to go to work, too.” They were expected to be on the front line, or near them — where ...

The tide of the battle did not clearly turn until Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army broke through to the 101 st Airborne Division, surrounded by the Wehrmacht in Bastogne, Belgium, the day ...