Easy Company Memorial in Bastogne
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Easy Company Memorial in Bastogne
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Easy Company Memorial in Bastogne.
The 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles) is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for its role in the D-Day landings, the liberation of the Netherlands and the Battle of the Bulge around Bastogne, Belgium.
In Bastogne, the 101st was brought out from R&R just a week before Christmas 1944 and hurriedly sent to resist the oncoming German attack that had taken the Allied Forces by surprise. This town was a key crossroads in the Germans Panzer counterattack aimed to retake Antwerp and cut the U.S. army from their supplies.
The men of the 101st dug their foxholes and formed a defensive perimeter in the Ardennes forests around Bastogne, resisting repeated infantry and armored attacks under terrible wintry conditions, equipped with summer clothing and very little medic support. They held on to their positions until Patton broke the siege with his tanks a week later. They had stopped the last German counteroffensive of the Second World War.
The 101st was made widely known through the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, which follows the fate of the Easy company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR).
This is a Memorial in Honor of the men of the Easy Company near the actual foxholes they dug in the forest to stop the Germans. Many of these foxholes have been preserved.
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September 29th, 2016
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