It Don't Come Easy

By the middle of January, “Easy” was on the attack again. Although many replacements had come into the ranks, some of whom were not even paratroop-qualified, Major Dick Winters entrusted them with one more assault to retake ground east of Bastogne lost a month earlier. The “Screamin’ Eagles” …

1945-01-15

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By the middle of January, “Easy” was on the attack again. Although many replacements had come into the ranks, some of whom were not even paratroop-qualified, Major Dick Winters entrusted them with one more assault to retake ground east of Bastogne lost a month earlier. The “Screamin’ Eagles” griped and moaned in the freezing Belgian countryside, but Easy Company’s vets followed Winters’ orders – and the replacements followed the vets. Upon entering the smoking ruins of Noville, there was an immediate counterattack by Panzer-Division 9. Winters led the remains of the 2nd Battalion to secure the town, which was infested with German snipers. The resulting losses left him with only 20 or so men who had dropped along with him on D-Day.

Noville, Belgium

The Siege of Bastogne was an engagement in December 1944 between American and German forces at the Belgian town of Bastogne, as part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. The goal of the German offensive was the harbor at Antwerp. In order to reach it before the Allies could regroup and bring their superior air power to bear, German mechanized forces had to seize the roadways through eastern Belgium. Because all seven main roads in the densely wooded Ardennes highlands converged on Bastogne, just a few miles away from the border with neighboring Luxembourg, control of its crossroads was vital to the German attack. The siege was from 20 to 27 December, until the besieged American forces were relieved by elements of General George Patton's Third Army.

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