First, there was the National Geographic episode on Bastogne in the ‘Hitler’s Last Stand’ series. Then there was the Battle of the Bulge episode for the Smithsonian Channel in the ‘Pivotal Battles of the Second World War’ series. Just recently, I was on the road again with an international crew for the series ‘World War II by Drone,’ to be broadcast sometime next year by the Smithsonian Channel in the US and the BBC-owned Yesterday Channel in the UK. A small convoy formed as we travelled (face masks on) to the Patton Monument in Bastogne town, the Mardasson monument, and the Bois Jacques of Band of Brothers fame. But glances at the camera monitors told me that the end product will show it to have been more than worth our while.
