Bastogne

Staff Sgt. Jill Diem, regional vocalist for the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band, sings during a Battle of the Bulge 70th anniversary commemoration event, Nov. 22, 2014, in Bastogne, Belgium. The USAFE Band playe More

Original caption: Bastogne, Belgium-Weary infantrymen of the 110th Regt., 28th Div., US 1st Army following the German breakthrough in that area. The enemy overran their battalion. (L-R) Pvt. Adam H. Davis and More

Original caption: American ambulance waits outside of a bombed building in Bastogne, Belgium, while a searcher looks for persons injured during the ten-day defense by 101st Airborne Div. 12/26/[44] More

Original caption: Bomb damage, the result of a German ten-day siege of the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium. 12/26/44. Photographs of American Military Activities

Original caption: Members of the 101st Airborne Division move out of Bastogne, Belgium, to drive the Germans who have besieged them for ten days, out of a neighboring town. This photo was taken while Bastogne More

Original caption: Gun crew of the ‘Black Widow’, 90 mm anti aircraft gun dug in outside Bastogne, Belgium, about to fire at enemy plane sighted in area. Battery B 217th Bn (Radar) Bastogne. Anti Aircraft

Original caption: Straw prevents remote control cables from freezing to ground on site of AA installation near Bastogne. Anti Aircraft

Original caption: Generals of the 101st Airborne Division review the 101st Div. in the town of Bastogne, Belgium. They are in front of "The Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st." 1/18/45. Bastogne, More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bastogne Country: Belgium (BEL) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Robert Marshall Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bastogne Country: Belgium (BEL) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Robert Marshall Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bastogne Country: Belgium (BEL) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Robert Marshall Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Bastogne Country: Belgium (BEL) Scene Camera Operator: SPC 5 Ronald J. Cavalier Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digi More

Participants walk along the route that once served as the perimeter that U.S. forces defended against German military advances in December 1944. This was the 35th Annual Bastogne Historic Walk and the 68th anni More

U.S. Army Sgt. Jim Bain addresses Airmen with the 714th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 514th Air Mobility Wing, at the base theater at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., April 8, 2018. Bain served in the i More

First Brigade Combat Team "Bastogne", 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) leadership talk about M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System Vehicle capabilities with 4-9 Infantry Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd I More

Iraqi police escorting Samarra Rescue Committee members pass by the spiral minaret in Samarra, Iraq, Feb. 16, on the way to placing them inside the northern-Iraqi city.

Soldiers from 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, warm up their humvees before departing on a mission to provide an Iraqi police station in ad Dawr with concrete b More

In an attempt to build rapport, 1st Lt. Tom Collins, the adjudant from the Military Transition Team, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), accepts chai from villagers outside of B More

A Soldier from the Scout Platoon, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, watches for any suspicious activity in a courtyard, while fellow his Soldiers met with More

A Soldier from the Scout Platoon, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, watches for any suspicious activity in a courtyard adjacent to the one where he holds More

A Soldier from Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), shows a group of Sons of Iraq how to build a Hesco Barrier in Mezra, Iraq, M More

A student at a school in Siniyah, Iraq, talks to an Iraqi policeman as he hands out Iraqi flags to children at the school. The Iraqi policemen along with soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment More

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter from 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division hovers at Contignecy Operating Base Speicher, as it prepares to move Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airbor More

Soldiers from Forward Support Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, construct small armored buildings for Sons of Iraq groups in the Samarra area. The small buildings will give more protection to SoI More

"Bastogne" Brigade Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division stand to during a welcome home ceremony at Fort Campbell, Ky. The "Bastogne" Soldiers returned home on Nov. 19 after spending 15 months in the Salah ad More

U.S. Army soldiers, 2nd Battalion 327th Infantry Regiment, hand out candy to local children during Operation Bastogne Overwatch, Nov. 6, 2010.

During a shura on top of a mountain, a village elder explains that insurgents use the area without the locals’ approval. Throughout the joint clearing operation, Afghan National Army soldiers from 2nd Company More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Edward Colon of Clarksville, Tenn., a motor transport operator with Company A, 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, is awarded the Bronze Star More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mary E. Crawford, a Bellingham, Wash., native, an armament noncommissioned officer in charge assigned to Company B, 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne More

Spc. O'Neil Davis, a light-wheeled mechanic with Company B, 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, and Pfc. Daniel Obmalay, a light-wheeled mechanic with Troop D, 1st More

Soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team participate in a division run during the Week of the Eagles, a celebration hosted annully, Aug. 10 here at Fort Campbell, Ky. More than 1,500 soldiers ran to kick start t More

A soldier of the 1st Brigade Combat Team performs a sliding catch at an Ultimate Frisbee game during Week of the Eagles, a division-wide celebration hosted annually, Aug. 14 outside Fryar Stadium at Fort Campbe More

Gun 1, Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, shoots their M777 Howitzer, Sept. 11, here.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Dollar, from Yakima, Wash., smiles after having completed outgoing fire training with 120mm mortars Dec. 2, 2012, at FOB Joyce, Afghanistan. Dollar is a gunnery sergeant with B More

Col. J.P. McGee and Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas W. Eppler, the commander and command sergeant major of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, uncase the brigade colors Dec. 5, during the Transfer of More

Afghan National Army soldiers from the 61st Kandak gather closely to view the different parts of an M240B machine this week on Combat Outpost Honikar-Miracle, Afghanistan. The instructors from Security Force As More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. James Reyes, a fire direction noncommissioned officer with Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, stands next to a M777 More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. James Reyes, a fire direction noncommissioned officer with Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, stands next to a M777 More

U.S. Army Pfc. Demetrius Roberson, a preventive medicine medic with Company C, 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, pours water into a measuring cup to begin testin More

Sgt. Amanda Olmeada and Spc. Rodney Wall, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AASLT), begin the distribution process of sending Christmas care packages to the Forward Operating Bases in the Kunar More

Civilian and commercial traffic moves slowly through Torkham Gate, which lies on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Heinrich, Task Force 1-101 PAO)

Master Sgt. Lemuel Wynn, Headquarters Support Company, 96th Aviation Support Battalion operations non-commissioned officer in charge picks up his wife, Sgt. 1st Class Audra Wynn, A Company, 426th Brigade Suppor More

U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division and Security Forces Assistance and Advisory Team-6 from 1st BCT, 101st Abn. Div., ride a UH-60 Ch More

A recreation of a historic sign which hung at Camp Eagle during the Vietnam War stands on display above the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade headquarters building on Bagram AirFfield, Afghanistan, Dec. 27, 2012. S More

Soldiers of Provincial Reconstruction Team Nangarhar, based at Forward Operating Base Finley-Shields, Afghanistan, sit with the leaders of Lal Pur district during a key leader engagement, Jan. 12, 2013. (U.S. A More

U.S. Army Spc. April Harvey, a metal worker with Company B, 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), prepares to weld hinges onto a series of gates on For More

Afghan Border Police and U.S. Army Soldiers from ABP Zone 1, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, hike from their landing zone to Observation Point 12 along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, Jan. 21 More

1st Lt. Todd Adams, the fire support officer with Cougar Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division learns the proper way to shut down a CH47 Chinook Helic More

U.S. Army scouts from 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, stand by their vehicles at Forward Operating Base Joyce conducting a pre-mission briefing Jan. 28.

Afghan Border Police and U.S. Army soldiers from 2/1 ABP, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, stand on the roof of an observation post outside Forward Opera More

Members of Combined Team Bastogne, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division and Provincial Reconstruction Team Kunar pose for a photo Jan. 24, 2013, after completing the treacherous hike to the top of O More

The official party for the Task Force Taskmaster Noncommissioned Officer Induction Ceremony, 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, renders a salute to the colors dur More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Roland Iyinbor, a civil affairs noncommissioned officer with Provincial Reconstruction Team Nangarhar, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, and native to Hampton, Va., poses wi More

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Roland Iyinbor, a civil affairs noncommissioned officer with Provincial Reconstruction Team Nangarhar, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, and native to Hampton, Va., stands n More

U.S. soldiers assigned to Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division prepare for take off for a re-enlistment ceremony at Forward Operating Base Fe More

U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct a dismounted patrol, outside Forward Operating Base Finley-Sh More

U.S. Service members and a security detail stand ready to greet Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at Jalalabad Airfield in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, March 9, 2013. The visit was a stop on Hagel's first forei More

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, center, speaks to members of the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team at Forward Operating Base Fenty in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, March 9, 2013. The visi More

Afghan National Army soldiers from 4th Combat Support Kandak, 2nd Brigade, 201st Corps, train on how to react to contact with U.S. Army soldiers from Team Phalanx, Security Forces Advisory and Assistance Team, More

U.S. Soldiers with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, conduct a dismounted patrol in a village at the Khogyani district of Nangarhar provinc More

U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Thomas M. Pollack, a Pembine, Wis., native, pins the Combat Action Badge on his son, U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Raymond J. Benning, during a ceremony March 29, 2013. Pollack, the Joint Operati More

U.S. Army Spc. Matt Kreutzer, a military working dog handler with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, and Sgt. Mimsy, a military working dog, stop for a photo during training at Forward Operating More

U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, gather to weigh in for a Danish Contingent March at Jalalabad Airfield, Afghanistan, April 20, 2013. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Heinr More

U.S. Soldiers with Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, practice using the Enhanced Portable Inductive Artillery Fuse Setter on a XM115 More

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Brandon Nall, left, holds the company guidon next to the winner of the shadow running of the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, 1st Lt. Bryan Lagasse,both assigned to Headquarters and Headquarter More

Vincent Speranza, a former infantryman machine gunner with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, inspects an M249 machine gun weapon system during an installation visit Oct. 6, 2013, at Joi More

Soldiers with 511 Sapper Engineer Company, 326 Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, stand ready as their Swiss seats are inspected during the battalion’s Warrior Stakes Jan. 23 More

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Scott W. Kirkpatrick, commander of 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), leads the last group of soldiers, consisting mainly More

Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, fire their M777A2 155mm Howitzer during their battalion’s confidence shoot Jan. 31 at Firing Point 32A here.

Soldiers with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), stand with guidons from their respective companies, March 13, 2014, during the brigade's final Distinguished and Honorary Member More

Sgt. Michael Nunes, a gunner with Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, receives his Charge of the Noncommissioned Officer from Command Sgt. More

Soldiers with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), navigate the Six Vaults on the brigade’s obstacle course, April 9, 2014, during the brigade’s last Best Squad Competition. (U.S. More

Spc. Yemima Tarber, a communications specialist with Charlie Company, 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, extended her commitment to the Army during a reenlistmen More

Col. Val C. Keaveny, Jr., former commander 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), stands in front of the brigade formation during the inactivation and relinquishment of command ceremony More

Soldiers with 3rd Platoon, Company B, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), provide suppressive fire during a walk and shoot exercise May 9, 201 More

Col. John W. Brennan (right), commander of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), receives the Group Support Battalion colors from Lt. Col. Fred L. Dela Cruz, outgoing commander of the GSB, 5th SFG(A), during More

A convoy of Soldiers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team (Bastogne), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), moves into their objective to conduct multiple training events at the premiere Joint Readiness Training C More

Maj. Gen. John R. O'Connor, the commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, stands next to a war memorial from the Battle of the Bulge during a staff ride Dec. 5. Senior leaders of the 21st TSC More

Special Forces Soldiers with the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), receive instructions from a Soldier with 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team "Bastogne," 101st Airborne Division More

Multiple World War II vehicles ride along Bastogne's main street for the victory parade commemorating Battle of the Bulge's 70th anniversary in Bastogne, Belgium, Dec. 14, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Infor More

Re-enactors portraying German Wehrmacht soldiers recalibrate NATO blank ammunitions in order to use them in their Mauser rifles before the recreation of Battle of the Bulge's combats for the 70th anniversary of More

A U.S. half-track stands in static display during the Battle of the Bulge's 70th anniversary commemorations in Bastogne, Belgium, Dec. 14, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Pascal Demeuldr More

A GMC truck is in static display in the U.S. campground for the Battle of the Bulge's 70th Birthday commemorations in Bastogne, Belgium, Dec. 14, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Pascal D More

A re-enactor portraying a GI rests against a Willys MB jeep in the snowy weather of the Battle of the Bulge commemorations in Bastogne, Belgium, Dec. 14, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist More

Belgian re-enactors recreate a color guard during the 70th anniversary of Battle of the Bulge, commemorating the largest land battle in U.S. Army history in Bastogne, Belgium, Dec. 14, 2014. (U.S. Army photo by More

A Soldier from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division receives hands-on radio training from 5th Special Forces Group Jan. 12 on Fort Campbell. The training concluded a five-part combined training exer More

Pfc. Nicholas Vaughan, Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) performs a functions check on an M4 after performing remedial action duri More

Lt. Col. Phillip Borders and Command Sgt. Maj. Ramon Fisher, the outgoing command team for 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, relinquished their command and resp More

A Soldier with 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) operates his character within the Virtual Battlespace System during a training event Feb. 12. T More

At a color casing ceremony Feb. 27, 2015, at the Freedom Fighter Gym, “Bulldogs” command team, Lt. Col. Eric Beaty, commander of 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne D More

Spouses of Soldiers currently deployed with 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), gathered at the Family Resource Center April 7 for a reintegra More

A Soldier in Company D “Maddogs,” 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), shoots at a 200 meter target during the best shooter competition April 9 More

First Lt. Dustin Ballentine and Master Sgt. Christopher McLain, engineers from the 21st Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), near the top of the Sapper tower while More

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Garrison Benelux and a Belgian Soldier repeat the execution of the color guard for the Battle of Bulge's memorial ceremony in Bastogne, Belgium, May 29, 2015. (U.S. Army More

This latin inscription found in the Mardasson Memorial translates to "The Belgian people remember their American liberators - 4th July 1946." Belgian and U.S. service members and civilians pay homage to the fal More

Pathfinder Class 05-15 stands in formation during their graduation ceremony at The Sabalauski Air Assault School, Fort Campbell, Ky., July 20, 2015. The 30 graduates earned their Pathfinder badges – a winged to More

Lt. Col. Christopher Hossfeld, commander of 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, and Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Jones, the battalion command sergeant major, un More

Scouts with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, line up to exit the gas chamber on Range 64 after breaking the seal o More

Soldiers with Company B, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division move quickly toward a waiting UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during hot load training with Kentucky More

Soldiers from the 326th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), run to the division parade field checkpoint during the battalions Sapper Athlete Warrior Chall More