BASTOGNE 2020 - For this year's anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge the team of SNAFU DOCS produced sevaral Then & Now videos.
The Battle of the Bulge is a term for history buffs that is inseparable with the German Counter Offensive against the US frontlines in Belgium and Luxembourg that started on Decemeber 16, 1944. The offensive was intended to stop the Allied use of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split the Allied lines, allowing the Germans to encircle and destroy four Allied armies and force the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis powers' favor. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle ever fought by the US Army in World War II.
In this episode of WWII Then & Now we travel around the city of Bastogne to take several Then & Now comparison photographs to cover the story of the 10th Armored Division and the 101st Airborne Division.
Many thanks to WWII Researchers:
Bob Konings, Joey van Meesen and
Florent Plana for helping to produce this video.
For this video we used several images from the US National Archives.
In order for you take a better look at the Then & Now photographs in the video we put them all here at the bottom!