(From left to right) Maj. Gen. Allan M. Pepin, commanding general, Joint Task Force – National Capital Region and the Military District of Washington; Charles Alexander, Jr., superintendent, Arlington National Cemetery; Sophie Karlshausen, deputy chief of mission, Belgium Embassy in the ; and Luxembourg Ambassador to the Nicole Bintner-Bakshian; speak before a wreath-laying at the Battle of the Bulge monument in Section 46, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 25, 2023. The ceremony commemorated the ending of the Battle of the Bulge on this date in 1945. The Batt
(From left to right) Maj. Gen. Allan M. Pepin, commanding general, Joint Task Force – National Capital Region and the Military District of Washington; Charles Alexander, Jr., superintendent, Arlington National Cemetery; Sophie Karlshausen, deputy chief of mission, Belgium Embassy in the ; and Luxembourg Ambassador to the Nicole Bintner-Bakshian; speak before a wreath-laying at the Battle of the Bulge monument in Section 46, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 25, 2023. The ceremony commemorated 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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