Before the German Army's Ardennes offensive, Patton had his staff working on a contingency plan because he sensed their foe might counterattack in the Bastogne region.

Farther south, Gen. Patton’s 3rd Army was making one of the most heroic and dramatic advances in American military history, driving toward Bastogne through miserable weather and stiff enemy ...

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.

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 ...

Peter Tonguette’s commendable essay on “Patton,” the classic 1970 war film by Franklin J. Schaffner, was most appropriate for Memorial Day weekend (“An Epic of Potent Patriotism ...

General George S. Patton was paralyzed in an auto accident in Germany on Dec. 9, 1945, and died in a Heidelberg hospital 12 days later. His death spared conspiracy theories.

“I want people to remember not only what we went through but what it was all for,” David Marshall, 100, said on the sidelines of celebrations in Bastogne. Marshall recalled fighting in heavy ...

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 ...