Sophie Karlshausen (second to right), deputy chief of mission, Belgium Embassy in the , and Luxembourg Ambassador to the Nicole Bintner-Bakshian (right) meet Joe Landry (bottom left), a 776th AAA Battalion WWII veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, and Darrell Bush (bottom center), 98, a former Army Staff Sergeant and a WWII veteran of the Battle of the Bulge near the Battle of the Bulge monument in Section 46, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 25, 2023. A wreath-laying ceremony was conducted that day to commemorate the ending of the Battle of the Bulge on this dat
Sophie Karlshausen (second to right), deputy chief of mission, Belgium Embassy in the , and Luxembourg Ambassador to the Nicole Bintner-Bakshian (right) meet Joe Landry (bottom left), a 776th AAA Battalion WWII veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, and Darrell Bush (bottom center), 98, a former Army Staff Sergeant and a WWII veteran of the Battle of the Bulge near the Battle of the Bulge monument in Section 46, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 25, 2023. A wreath-laying ceremony was conducted that day to commemorate the ending of the Battle of the Bulge on this date in 1945. The Battle of the Bulge, described by Winston Churchill as "undoubtedly the greatest American battle" of World War II, took place in the Ardennes Forest region of Belgium and Luxembourg from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945. The last major German counteroffensive on the Western Front, it ended in victory for Allied forces under the command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower — but at great cost. Soldiers fought in brutal winter conditions, and the Army lost approximately 19,000 men (and suffered some 75,000 total casualties) in what became the United States' deadliest single World War II battle.
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