They said it was the coldest Christmas season in Western Europe in 38 years. This was the daunting and frigid environment of ice and snow that the American Army faced 80 years ago in what would become its ultimate battle test of the European theater of operations during World War II.
On the freezing and snow-filled Christmas Eve of 1944, the paratroopers of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division were hunkered down and surrounded by some four German divisions of tanks and infantry in the small Belgian town of Bastogne, located in a hilly and forested area known as the Ardennes.
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