European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse I us through the he Frfd Man and Snoie j us f of Xref fun infantry advances on Bastogne. This a photo from int Rory f 9id of Ruf Uret .1111 their Belon Ink. Wilb others irn Iling out Chi nil Arioul 7, people live in Ludiry Sunyi Liliu Silver Hal i d Belf Teliin who h script i inc town ,1s i Ivins much the slime to r is it did Chi n. Thuro and there he Points around the Square arc m w Biti dings. There there Arv old buildings with the holes fixed a act. In diff Ectyl of town the bombs make big one family alone loss 11 Mumbai but big damage fur. Lilllie Roland had already a i Pencil. The previous it air his father had been arrested is n resistance Fiji her mar Check to a Camp find t a ruled by firing . One i f Bastogne s streets running past a bulk a Chippy d Monument is twi invt Niter him in september w4 Thi Hall liberated 8itolti�ne. Suddenly liter Only thaw months it Linoki d to the horrified town people is if the Gur inns Wytt coming Back Ai Oul ,1,500 people lived in Bastogne when the Bill Ali , says deeper Flange. More half fled before it was Over my the rest he idled in c to Kars Annii inc rubble praying for the bombing and shelling in Slop. By , dec. 20,1 he germans had. Encircled Bastogne. A cocky american paratrooper cell Letl it a in Lbook perfect Situ Allon adding. We re used to being More Lhnn 11,000 paratroopers of he 101st airborne div plus smaller numbers from Oiler units that had rushed to the town soon found themselves in Towl perfect situation locked in the town and. The villages around it under heavy siege inside a 35 mile perimeter. They were running Low on food and irn Musil Ion. Nearly impenetrable Mist and Cloud cover prevented resupply from the air. One item not in Short Supply for those cts who would be the battered of the bastion if bids tone flour. Ions / ii. They ale Icker , flapjacks. Soon elements of the German sch Panzer. Army Weri eng aged in in ill out Effort to them into one of those flapjacks and capture Bastogne by Christmas. Other Panzer columns rumbled on a fount the town and drove toward the Meuse River. Hitter himself called Bastogne indispensable. All i Hose roads were needed for All those Lanks c talks of a miss acc of 84 yanks it Malmo by 30 Miles North of a Slogic by 1st is Panzer div troops with deaths Heads on their Caps reinforced rather than weakened american resolve to stand fast. Blasted maimed had Laken it from both sides. . Planes bombed it three limes by mistake leading Cis to dub them the american Luftwaffe a stories of other prisoners being shot Down in the wave of terror called or by Hitler of Cermaks infiltrating in yank uniforms ant vehicles added to the Battle s savagery ar.\. The germans came on and on with thousands of foot soldiers. Attacking in White Surj Sulli Mariy gis hastily camouflaged themselves with belgian sheets and tablecloths through the freezing fog plodding across snowy Fields Strung with barbed wire they were chopped Down by the. Paratroopers fire. When g is slopped shooting they could hear germ ins screaming in the Days afterwards the dead lung like Frozen ghosts in the wire. Ii was so cold the defenders were issued blocks of int to blast holes in the icy earth., on dec 22, German emissaries carrying a while t Lik came up a Road toward Basl Cigne. Paratroopers poked warily out of Ihler holes like animal sniffing the win did the surrounding germans wish to surrender it was the reverse a message from the German commander to the american commander. To deft bar 13, i9ab
