Nuts weekend Bastogne 2023

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Nuts weekend Bastogne 2023

Post by housil » Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:57 am

You may are familiar with the story about "NUTs", what General McAuliffe replied to the German request of surrender of the US paras encircled in Bastogne 1944.
https://www.army.mil/article/92856/the_ ... nuts_reply

So there is each Dec the Nuts Weekend to remember this in Bastogne with lots of reenactment around and at the Bastogne War Museum

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We also visited the grave of Renée Lemaire, the "Angle of Bastogne" you may know from the show "Band of Brothers"
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Re: Nuts weekend Bastogne 2023

Post by housil » Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:01 pm

Sunday we went to Houffalize, another little town next to Bastogne were heavy fights took place. A German Panther tank felt off the river bridge, flippt over and killed its crew that way.
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https://www.landofmemory.eu/en/the-retu ... ouffalize/


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