Eighty years ago on Jan. 16, Allied armies (U.S. and British) forced a German retreat that ended the last major German offensive of World War II, “The Battle ... the U.S. 101st Airborne Division ...

101st US Airborne Division was resting in reserve near Paris when the call for immediate deployment to the Ardennes came and reached Bastogne just before the German ring around the town closed.

The weather turned, setting the icy stage for the horrors of the Battle of the Bulge, depicted starkly in "Band of Brothers." ...

Anomalous because, in reality, they had already fought in the Civil War, with the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment, composed primarily of former slaves, being the first unit of its kind ...

The weather turned, setting the icy stage for the horrors of the Battle of the Bulge, depicted starkly in "Band of Brothers." The 101st Airborne Division was holding on to a critical rail and road ...