Perhaps World War II Gen. George S. Patton’s finest hour as an American war leader came during the pivotal Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, when his army relieved the surrounded 101st ...

Finally, on Dec. 23, the skies cleared, and some planes dropped supplies to the beleaguered troops in and around Bastogne. Farther south, Gen. Patton’s 3rd Army was making one of the most heroic ...

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 ...

Bradley, Eisenhower, and Patton surveying the damage in Bastogne. (National Archives) By 1944 it was a very well-oiled machine. So, in late November, ...

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.

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