Anthony McAuliffe

Bastogne, Belgium was surrounded on Dec. 22, 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. The Germans had made it a priority to be taken. At 11:30 AM, a group of four Germans approached an American outpost under a white flag. One of them was Maj. Wagner from Gen. von Luttwitz’s Read more

 The Battle of the Bulge famously occurred at Christmastime of 1944.  The most remembered moment came when the Germans had Bastogne surrounded and decided to demand surrender.  The American general’s response became the most famous one word quote in American History. Here is the message the German commander sent to Read more