Monthly Archives: februari 2017

februari 2017

EMBRACING PATTON

2019-01-28T23:48:04+01:00

Stubbornly proud, officers and men of the 101st Airborne Division long after the war maintained that they had not been in need of any rescuing by the Third Army when it broke the German siege on 26 December 1944. But, as I show in my book on Bastogne, the postwar testimony of their acting commander, [...]

EMBRACING PATTON2019-01-28T23:48:04+01:00

A LONELY CROSS

2019-01-28T23:48:04+01:00

Returning from a raid over Germany’s Ruhr Valley on 4 November 1944, American pilot James M. Hansen’s P-47 Thunderbolt from the 411th Fighter Squadron ran into trouble and crashed. The 23-year-old from Spokane, Washington, was killed instantly. He left behind a wife and two small children. Allied forces buried the pilot in the temporary American [...]

A LONELY CROSS2019-01-28T23:48:04+01:00