72 years ago, the Nazis launched their last great offensive of World War II -here are 13 photos of the Battle of the Bulge
German soldiers, wearing heavy winter gear, walk past a burning American half-track in the Western Front in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, December 1944. This photo is from a batch of film captured from the Germans by American forces.
German infantrymen pass burning captured American vehicles during the drive into Allied lines on the Western Front in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 during World War II. This photo is from a batch of film captured from the Germans by American forces.
An unidentified young American soldier, captured by German troops during their counterattack in the Belgian Ardennes region, leads a march of prisoners at an unknown location in December 1944.
This captured German photo shows two dead American soldiers, stripped of all their equipment, as they lie face down in the slush of a crossroad in an unknown village near Buellingen, in the Province Liege in Belgium, in December 1945.
American tanks and armored gun carriers drive over snow-covered terrain toward Samree, Belgium, December 1944, during World War II.
A seriously injured GI lays in the snow in Belgium, December 1944.
Troops from the American First Army cautiously search a wooded area in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge, December 24, 1944, during World War II. They were looking for German parachute troops.
An infantryman from the 82nd Airborne Division goes out on a one-man sortie while covered by a comrade in the background, near Bra, Belgium, on December 24, 1944.
A King Tiger German tank ran against a building in an unnamed Belgium town on December 26, 1944, where it was knocked out of action.
Standing on a snow-covered battlefield, these American infantrymen of the 4th Armored Division fire at German troops, in an advance to relieve pressure on surrounded US airborne units, near Bastogne, Belgium, on December 27, 1944.
A two-man patrol, a bren-gunner and a piat-gunner, in Belgium on December 31, 1944. Snow had fallen on the two previous days.
German prisoners of war are seen as they carry the body of an American soldier through deep snow, during the Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes sector of Belgium, in late 1944.
A soldier runs past a burning German half-track in the recaptured town of La Glieze, Belgium, in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.
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