GERMANS UNABLE TO BREAK BASTOGNE ROADBLOCK
101st Airborne Command Post, Bastogne, Belgium • December 25, 1944 On Christmas Eve 1944 in the German-besieged Eastern Belgian town of Bastogne (population 3,500), soldiers of the armorless U.S. 101st Airborne “Screaming Eagles” Division, elements of the 9th and 10th Armored Divisions, and several combat engineer and field artillery battalions received rations of brandy and listened…