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# Ardennes Breakthrough Association

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- [Home (A.B.A. title page)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/) - ARDENNES BREAKTHROUGH ASSOCIATION researches the events happening in the sector south of Bastogne during the Ardennes Offensive (December 1944 - January 1945).
- [BOPP Karl - Fallschirmjäger Regiment 14](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bopp-karl-fallschirmjager-regiment-14/) - At the time of the Fourth Armored Division’s first assault on Chaumont (December 23, 1944), the 3. Kompanie was most likely positioned north of Chaumont. On December 25, 1944, this company was sent to Chaumont to reinforce the battered Fallschirmjäger there. Karl survived his wounds and surrendered with his unit near war’s end. Sources: Soldbuch
- [Remembering - 5. Fallschirmjäger Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remembering-5-fallschirmjager-division/) - Bopp Friedel Prigge Remembrance Home
- [Then & Now](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/then-now-2/) - Belgium Luxembourg Other places Home
- [Then & Now (other locations)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/then-now-other-locations/) - Aîsomont Amonines Beffe Berdorf (Lux) Bettendorf (Lux) Blier Bonnert area Bovigny Chapelle Fischbach Cheneux Clervaux (Lux) Dahl (Lux) Deidenberg Dochamps Eschweiler (Lux) Fisenne Forzée Foy Francorchamps Gonderange (Lux) Gouvy Hebronval Heinerscheid (Lux) Honsfeld Hotton Houffalize Houmont Humain Hünningen Jambes (Namur) Kaiserbaracke La Gleize La Roche-en-Ardenne La Vaulx Richard Langlire Ligneuville Lomré Longvilly area Lorcé Manhay
- [Stoumont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/stoumont/) - Then & Now Home
- [Rahier](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/rahier/) - Then & Now Home
- [Neffe](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/effe/) - Then & Now Home
- [Marnach (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/marnach/) - Then & Now Home
- [Foy](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/foy/) - Then & Now Home
- [Bovigny](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bovigny/) - Then & Now Home
- [Bonnert area](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bonnert-area/) - Then & Now Home
- [Bettendorf (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bettendorf-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Amonines](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/elementor-page-9059/) - Then & Now Home
- [Aîsomont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/aisomont/) - From Timo Worst: Beobachtungspanzer IV from the artillery regiment of the Leibstandarte. The I. (Gep.) Abteilung of SS-Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 1 of SS-Hstuf. Kalischko was positioned in Aisomont with its command post in the Milbers cafe in Wanne. Then & Now Home
- [Wiltz (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/wiltz/) - Then & Now Home
- [Watrange (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/watrange-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Wardin-Harzy](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/wardin-harzy/) - Then & Now Home
- [Wallendorf (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/wallendorf/) - Then & Now Home
- [Thirimont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/thirimont/) - Then & Now Home
- [Stavelot](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/stavelot/) - Additional photos of Tiger II “222”. German paratroopers of the 3. Fallschirmjäger Division riding on the deck of “222”. Kriegsberichterstatter (war correspondent) Büschel showing paratroopers of the FJR 9/FJD 3 on Tiger II ‘222’ at the entrance of Ligneuville coming from Deidenberg and Kaiserbaracke, where the motorcyclist also can been seen. All belonging to the
- [Savy](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/savy/) - Then & Now Home
- [Sankt Vith](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/sankt-vith/) - Then & Now Home
- [Saint-Hubert](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/saint-hubert/) - Then & Now Home
- [Rochefort](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/rochefort/) - Then & Now Home
- [Road Lanzerath - Merlscheid](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/road-lanzerath-merlscheid/) - Then & Now Home
- [Road between Samrée and Dochamps](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/road-between-samree-and-dochamps/) - Then & Now Home
- [Petit Thier](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/petit-thier/) - Then & Now Home
- [Ortho](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/ortho/) - Then & Now Home
- [Nieder-Emmels](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/nieder-emmels/) - Then & Now Home
- [Namur](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/namur/) - Then & Now Home
- [N854 from Champs to Bastogne](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n854-from-champs-to-bastogne/) - Then & Now Home
- [Marvie area](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/marvie-area/) - Then & Now Home
- [Manhay](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/manhay-2/) - Then & Now Home
- [Lorcé](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/lorce/) - Then & Now Home
- [Longvilly area](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/longvilly-area/) - Road to Longvilly (N874).Even in January 1945, the evidence of the demise of Team Cherry was visible. Although pushed off the road, these were vehicles of Team Cherry destroyed by either the Panzer Lehr, 2. Panzer Division or 26. Volksgrenadier Division. Elements of these three German units shot up the traffic jam on this road
- [Lomré](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/lomre/) - Then & Now Home
- [Ligneuville](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/ligneuville/) - Then & Now Home
- [Langlire](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/langlire/) - Then & Now Home
- [La Vaulx Richard](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/la-vaulx-richard/) - Then & Now Home
- [La Roche](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/la-roche/) - Then & Now Home
- [La Gleize](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/la-gleize/) - Then & Now Home
- [Kaiserbaracke](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/kaiserbaracke-2/) - Then & Now Home
- [Jambes, Namur](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/jambes-namur/) - Then & Now Home
- [Hunnange / Hünningen](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/hunnange-hunningen/) - Then & Now Home
- [Houmont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/houmont/) - Then & Now Home
- [Humain](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/humain-2/) - Then & Now Home
- [Houffalize](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/houffalize/) - Then & Now Home
- [Hotton](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/hotton/) - Then & Now Home
- [Honsfeld](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/honsfeld/) - Then & Now Home
- [Heinerscheid (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/heinerscheid-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Hebronval](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/hebronval/) - Then & Now Home
- [Gouvy](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/gouvy/) - Then & Now Home
- [Gonderange (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/gonderange-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Francorchamps](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/francorchamps/) - Then & Now Home
- [Forzée](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/forzee/) - Then & Now Home
- [Fisenne](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/fisenne/) - Then & Now Home
- [Eschweiler (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/eschweiler-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Dochamps](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/dochamps/) - Then & Now Home
- [Deidenberg](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/deidenberg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Dahl (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/dahl-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Clervaux (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/clervaux-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Cheneux](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/cheneux/) - Then & Now Home
- [Chapelle Fischbach at Baraque Michel](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/chapelle-fischbach-at-baraque-michel/) - Then & Now Home
- [Blier](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/blier/) - Then & Now Home
- [Berdorf (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/berdorf-luxembourg/) - Then & Now Home
- [Beffe](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/beffe/) - Then & Now Home
- [Then & Now BELGIUM](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/books/) - Assenois area Bastogne Bodange Burnon Chaumont Clochimont area Cobreville Grandrue Habay-la-Neuve Habay-la-Vieille Hotte Losange Martelange Remoifosse Sainlez Tintange Vaux-sur-Sûre Villers-la-Bonne-Eau Then & Now Home
- [Then & Now LUXEMBOURG](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/then-now/) - 26th Infantry Division 80th Infantry Division 4th Armored Division Then & Now Home
- [December 15, 2024](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-15-2024/) - Second day of the 80th Anniversary events; BASTOGNE Commemorations Home
- [December 17, 2024](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-17-2024/) - Fourth and final day of the 80th Anniversary events; CHAUMONT -> BASTOGNE -> OUREN Commemorations Home
- [December 16, 2024](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-16-2024/) - Third day of the 80th Anniversary events; SCHUMANN’S ECK -> BERLE – > FEITSCH -> CLERVAUX Commemorations Home
- [December 14, 2024](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-14-2024/) - First day of the 80th Anniversary events; MELINES -> SADZOT -> GRANDMENIL -> LA FOSSE -> BEFFE Manhay – La Fosse area, December 2024. Commemorations Home
- [Battle of the Bulge 80](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/battle-of-the-bulge-80/) - Events during the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. December 14 – 17, 2024. December 14 December 15 December 16 December 17 Commemorations Home
- [Commemorations](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/commemorations-2/) - NUTS Weekend 2018 Commemoration 09.02.2019 Chaumont 75 Hendrix MoH Paul J. Wiedorfer NUTS Weekend 2021 Gen. Irzyk Park 2022 NUTS Weekend 2022 Battle of the Bulge 80 Home
- [66th Armored Field Artillery Battalion (4th AD)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/66th-armored-field-artillery-battalion-4th-ad/) - Photos and maps by Erwin Verholen. Special thanks to George Hemcher for the photos of his father. Routes (US) Home
- [Overviews](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/overviews/) - This section has overviews of where the different photos were taken and their location in the city of Bastogne. (Click on the photos to enlarge.) Then & Now Home
- [Bastogne](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bastogne/) - Overviews Place McAuliffe Grand Rue Bastogne Barracks Bastogne Cemetery N874 Rue Gustave Delperdange N874-N30 Route de La Roche N30 Houffalize N84 Marche N84 Wiltz N84 Marvie Rue d'Assenois N85 Rue de Neufchâteau Then & Now Home
- [Grand-Rue (Rue du Sablon)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/grand-rue-rue-du-sablon/) - Additional information provided by David Graham: That tank was trapped in the side street when a building collapsed on it. Notice the cable is still there from the recovery effort. I talked to an eyewitness GI who said the tank crew was yelling for help from down the gun barrel! Then & now Home
- [Rue d'Assenois](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/rue-dassenois/) - Then & now Home
- [Kortstock, Klaus Dietrich - 5. Fallschirmjäger Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/kortstock-klaus-dietrich-5-fallschirmjager-division/) - Personal accounts Home
- [Personal accounts (German)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/personal-accounts-german/) - DILL Herbert KORTSTOCK Kaus KRAN Karl Personal accounts Home
- [Kran, Karl - 5. Fallschirmjäger Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/kran-karl-5-fallschirmjager-division/) - Sources: bigonville.info/reports Google View Map: Gb_119a_Neuerburg-Diekirch_1943 Personal accounts Home
- [Personal accounts](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/personal-accounts/) - American German Home
- [Dill, Herbert – 5. Fallschirmjäger Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/dill-herbert-5-fallschirmjager-division/) - Personal accounts Home
- [PARKS, John H. - 37th Tank Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/parks-john-h-37th-tank-bn/) - Sources: “John Parks: The Face of Battle”, by Bill Warnock. WWII uncovered: “Honoring the Heroes We Lost”. Morning Reports 37th Tank Battalion. IDPF John PARKS. Findagrave. Photos: Erwin Verholen, Ivan Steenkiste, various internet sources. Personal accounts Home
- [Personal accounts (US)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/personal-accounts-us/) - John H. PARKS 26th Infantry Division “Yankee Division”. John A. DEWIRE James L. FERULLO Edgar A. POPE 687th Field Artillery Battalion. Nels BLOCK, Jr. Personal accounts Home
- [Frozen](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/sainlez/) - Next to the N4 leading to Bastogne and about across the N4 a bit north from Sainlez, a couple of photos were taken of Sherman tanks of the 35th Tank Battalion (4th Armored Division). Also shown is a Flak gun of (most likely) Fallschirm-Flak-Abteilung 5 of the German 5. Fallschirmjäger Division. Some of the crew
- [Sainlez and area](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/sainlez-and-area/) - Disaster Strikes! Frozen Then & Now Home
- ["A tank called Blue Eyes" - 6th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/a-tank-called-blue-eyes-6th-armored-division/) - Routes (US) Home
- [Routes](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/routes-2/) - Patton Route Liberty Road Routes (US) Routes (German) Home
- [The General Patton Route](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/the-general-patton-route/) - HOTTE (GPS 49.871437, 5.662703) BURNON BRIDGE (GPS 49.886505, 5.658763) LAMBAICHENET WOODS (GPS 49.901617, 5.667908) CHAUMONT BEECH TREE (GPS 49.917144, 5.667210) WIEDORFER MONUMENT (GPS 49.918900, 5.672602) GENERAL IRZYK PARK (GPS 49.919221, 5.671044) COLONEL COHEN STREET (GPS 49.920132, 5.671891) (GPS 49.922515, 5.672299) CLOCHIMONT CROSSROADS (GPS 49.947348, 5.663963) HENDRIX MONUMENT ASSENOIS (GPS 49.966908, 5.681452) BREAKTHROUGH BUNKER ASSENOIS (GPS
- [Routes (US)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/routes/) - First "First in Bastogne" CCA 4th AD CCB 4th AD CCR 4th AD 704th TD Bn 66th AFA Bn 4th AD 25th CavRecon 28th ID 3rd AFA Bn 9th AD Engineers Martelange 318th IR 80th ID 35th ID Blue Eyes 6th AD Home
- [Liberty Road (Voie de la Liberté)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/liberty-road-voie-de-la-liberte/) - Routes Home
- [Here comes the Cavalry!](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/here-comes-the-cavalry/) - A Troop kept screening and outposting the N4 road from near Hollange to about 4 miles from Bastogne, meanwhile it’s command post relocated from Strainchamps to Hollange itself. Outposts set up at Sûre, Tintange, Salvacourt and less than a mile northwest of Sainlez. 1st Platoon lost an M8 armored car due to artillery fire in
- [BLOCK, Nels Jr. - 687th FA Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/block-nels-jr-687th-fa-bn/) - Personal accounts Home
- [Irzyk, Albin F. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/irzyk-albin-f-4th-armored-division/) - Photos: Michael Malone, Ivan Steenkiste, Kp Morris, Erwin Verholen. Remembrance Home
- [Remembering - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remembering-4th-armored-division/) - Unknown Adams Adkins Bernal Blackmer Boggess Burden Cox Fenchel Gniot Green Guay Harris Hendrix Hemcher Irving Irzyk Jackson Kieley Lowry Manees Marcinkiewicz Odle Pelkey Rockafeller Rucinski Rybak Sklar Remembrance Home
- [Cohen, Harold - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/cohen-harold-4th-armored-division/) - “My most prized possession is my American citizenship. My proudest claim is that I am an American patriot.” – Lt. Col. Harold Cohen. Sources: jimsudmeier.com valor.militarytimes.com www.omsa.org www.findagrave.com
- [Sandweiler Military Cemetery.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/sandweiler-military-cemetery/) - Cemeteries Home
- [Recogne Military Cemetery.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/recogne-military-cemetery/) - Cemeteries Home
- [Henri-Chapelle Military Cemetery.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/henri-chapelle-military-cemetery/) - Cemeteries Home
- [Luxembourg American Military Cemetery.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/luxembourg-american-military-cemetery/) - Cemeteries Home
- [Ardennes Military Cemetery.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/ardennes-military-cemetery/) - Cemeteries Home
- [Military Cemeteries](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/military-cemeteries/) - Ardennes Military Cemetery Luxembourg Military Cemetery Henri-Chapelle Military Cemetery Recogne Military Cemetery Sandweiler Military Cemetery Home
- [Remembrance](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remembrance/) - Faces of Chaumont Remember them! Cemeteries Home
- [Meeting the Kallenbergs - April 2023.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/meeting-the-kallenbergs-april-2023/) - Sam Sklar (father)Ida (Siegel) Sklar (mother)Betty Sklar (sister)Albert Sklar (brother) Army Serial Number: O-397469 On those two days, we tried to provide the family (Captain Sklar was the uncle) with the full story of what happened to him on December 24 and 25, 1944 and after. After being pulled up from the front in the
- [Meetings](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/meetings/) - Don FOX March 2019 George GUAY September 2019 ABA Meeting October 2019 Yeomanry December 2019 Roland GAUL December 2021 Jerry STREITZ December 2021 DPAA March 2023 Meeting the Kallenbergs April 2023 Home
- [Place McAuliffe (Place du Carré)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/place-mcauliffe-place-du-carre/) - Home
- [Meeting the DPAA - March 2023](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/meeting-the-dpaa-march-2023/) - On March 28 – 30, 2023, we welcomed the Investigation Team of the American D.P.A.A. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency). The mission of the DPAA is to find out where and how US soldiers were killed and became missing in action (MIA). In Europe, around 73,000 US military are still missing in action and have
- [Video section](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/video-section/) - NUTS Weekend 2022 (December 10-11). Well-made documentary including drone footage. Short documentary on the “General Patton Route” leading from Fauvillers over Chaumont, Assenois to the General Patton Monument in Bastogne. American and German units in the sector south of Bastogne. Overview. American tank destroyers in the Battle of the Bulge. Combat Command A, 4th Armored
- [Sklar, Fred - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/sklar-fred-4th-armored-division/) - Since their arrival at the blown bridge near Burnon, this force had been harassed by fire coming from the wooded areas on their flanks. Elements of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 14 of the 5. Fallschirmjäger Division (Generalmajor Ludwig Heilmann) supported by “sturmgeschütze” (assault guns) of Fallschirmjäger Sturmgeschütz Brigade 11 (Oberstleutnant Georg Hollunder) made progress slow and dangerous.
- [Colonel Cohen Street](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/colonel-cohen-street/) - Photo: Ivan Steenkiste. Home
- [4th Armored Division (Luxembourg)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/4th-armored-division-luxembourg/) - (Click on the photos to enlarge.) Special thanks to Jerry Streitz for the identification and additional photo of Café Hoffmann. Then & Now Home
- [Chaumont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/chaumont/) - Then & Now Home
- [Clochimont area](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/clochimont-area/) - Then & Now Home
- [Pasela, Stanley F. - 811th TD Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/pasela-stanley-f-811th-td-bn/) - And the date was either December 29 or 30, 1944, that is (probably) correct too, although that was the date the M18 was hit and knocked out. But here is the error. At that time, Sibret was occupied by German forces.It had been overrun by elements of the 5. Fallschirmjäger Division who were on the
- [The first "First in Bastogne".](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/the-first-first-in-bastogne/) - On December 19, 1944, Combat Command B (Brigadier General Holmes E. Dager) of the 4th Armored Division moved up to the north and – in all the confusion resulting from the Ardennes Offensive – found itself in the zone of the US VIII Army Corps and was attached to this army corps by order of
- [December 11, 2022 - Day TWO](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-11-2022-day-two/) - Dec. 10 Home
- [December 10 - 11, 2022 (NUTS Weekend)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-9-11-2022-nuts-weekend/) - Dec. 10 Dec. 11 Home
- [December 10, 2022 - Day ONE](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-10-2022-day-one/) - Dec. 11 Home
- [The  logo of A.B.A.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/our-logo/) - Home
- [1. SS Panzer Division „Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler“](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/1-ss-panzer-division-leibstandarte-adolf-hitler/) - Zug SS Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 11. SS Panzergrenadier Bataillon (-)3. SS Panzergrenadier Bataillon SS Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 11. SS Panzergrenadier Bataillon (-)2. SS Panzergrenadier Bataillon German units Home
- [Jerry Streitz, December 11, 2021.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/jerry-streitz-december-11-2021/) - Meetings Home
- [Roland Gaul, December 2021.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/roland-gaul-december-2021/) - Meetings Home
- [Yeomanry 13.12.2019](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/__trashed/) - Meetings Home
- [Meeting 19.10.2019](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/meeting-19-10-2019/) - Photo: Ivan Steenkiste. Meetings Home
- [George Guay, 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/george-guay-53rd-armored-infantry-battalion/) - Left to right: Jenna (granddaughter), Diane (daughter), Greg (son) and Matt (grandson). Meetings Home
- [Don Fox, March 2019.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/don-fox-march-2019/) - Photo: Erwin Verholen. Meetings Home
- [Harlange Pocket](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/harlange-pocket/) - Although “Fallschirmjäger” (Paratroop) only in name, as many troops were replacements from Luftwaffe ground personnel and other units, the 5. Fallschirmjäger Division (Generalmajor Ludwig Heilmann) had plenty of anti-tank weapons (Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck) as well as assault rifles (Sturmgewehr 44). In support were the assault guns (Sturmgeschütze III) of Fallschirm-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade XI (Oberstleutnant Georg Hollunder). After
- [FORMAN Emile, Lutremange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/forman-emile-lutremange/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. My story begins when my family (my mother, my father, my brother and I) and about fifteen villagers, fleeing the bombardments, take refuge in an old trench 6 meters long, between Villers-la-Bonne-Eau and Lutremange. Civilian side Home
- [Combat Command R breaks through!](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/combat-command-r-breaks-through/) - Photos by Jeremie Chenot-Nosh, Ivan Steenkiste and Erwin Verholen (2017-2021). Routes (US) Home
- [Combat Command A, 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/combat-command-a-4th-armored-division/) - CCA had a tough time at Martelange and Warnach, CCB at Chaumont, CCR first at Bigonville, moved to the left flank and eventually was the first to break through the German encirclement of Bastogne. Routes (US) Home
- [HOUSIAUX J, Remoiville](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/housiaux-j-remoiville/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. Civilian side Home
- [LOZET-GUSTIN Maria, Chaumont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/lozet-gustin-maria-chaumont/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. Civilian side Home
- [LAHY-MARECHAL Émilie, Chaumont - Grandrue](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/lahy-marechal-emilie-chaumont-grandrue/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. 23 years old in 1944.I had taken refuge with my parents at my sister’s in Grandru. The Germans weren’t there yet. The day after our arrival, Jules, my husband, suggested going to see what was happening in
- [LAFONTAINE Leon, Lutremange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/lafontaine-leon-lutremange/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. Testimony of Leon Lafontaine, civilian, 7 years old in 1944. Driven out by the Germans, we take refuge in the woods. But the slope is exposed to American fire. We pass on the other side, on the
- [GEORGES Roger, Lutremange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/georges-roger-lutremange/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. Testimony of Roger GEORGES, civilian. The family took refuge in a house between Honville and Sainlez: “Au Vieux Buchi”, where my uncle lived. One day, my father returned to Lutremange to see the state of our house.
- [Mrs. GASPARD-MUTSCHEN, Remichampagne](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/mrs-gaspard-mutschen-remichampagne/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. Testimony of Mrs GASPARD-MUTSCHEN, civilian, 14 years old in 1944. I lived with my parents, my brothers and sisters, my grandparents, in a farm on the road to Assenois (currently near the “drive in” Wenkin) in Bastogne.
- [M. l'abbé  FELTEN, Lutrebois - Losange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/m-labbe-felten-lutrebois-losange/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. Testimony of Father FELTEN, civilian, 18 years old in 1944.The Germans arrive at Losange on December 20 around 11 a.m. They take possession of the dwellings: the castle, a farm and its outbuildings and the manager’s house.
- [Mrs. DENSOY, Chaumont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/mrs-densoy-chaumont/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. She welcomed in her parents’ stables her future in-laws who had spent a day and a night frozen in the cold… under a bridge!A shell explosion killed four elderly people and injured three others. Another explosion killed
- [BOULANGER-WILMOTTE Maria, Lutrebois - Losange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/boulanger-wilmotte-maria-lutrebois-losange/) - Testimonies collected in 1993 and 1994 by Patricia Lemaire and Robert Fergloute. Published with permission of Patricia Lemaire. Testimony of Maria BOULANGER-WILMOTTE, civilian, 55 years old in 1944. Sunday, December 17. At noon, Jean returns and says that the advance of the Germans has been announced. Victor goes to the Bastogne railroad station. He is
- [The civilian side](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/the-civilian-side/) - Boulanger-Wilmotte Densoy Abbé Felten Forman Gaspard-Mutschen Georges Housiaux Lafontaine Lahy-Marechal Lozet-Gustin Home
- [Volksgrenadiere!](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/volksgrenadiere/) - The 167. Volksgrenadier Division in the Ardennes. Grenadier-Regiment 331Grenadier-Regiment 339Grenadier-Regiment 387Füsilier-Kompanie 167Artillerie-Regiment 167Pionier-Bataillon 167Panzerjäger-Abteilung 167 (the 2. Kompanie wasn’t available in January 1945)Nachrichten-Abteilung 167Feldersatz-Bataillon 167Versorgungseinheiten 167 (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-277-0840-33-Jacob) Routes (German) Home
- [Gniot, Charles C. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/gniot-charles-c-4th-armored-division/) - Headquarters, Third U.S. Army, General Orders No. 112 (1945) Remembrance Home
- [Fenchel, Bruce D. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/fenchel-bruce-d-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Burden, William E. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/burden-william-e-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [The 704th TD Bn in "The Bulge"](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/the-704th-td-bn-in-the-bulge/) - Routes (US) Home
- [Disaster strikes at Sainlez](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/disaster-strikes-at-sainlez/) - December 25, 1944. Combat Command A of the 4th Armored Division was slugging its way towards Bastogne, roughly following the N4 main road leading to the besieged town. The American force already had a rough time at Martelange and especially at Warnach the preceding days. Over the skies above Honville and Sainlez, P-47 “Thunderbolt” fighter
- [Remoifosse](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remoifosse/) - Remoifosse is also known for a famous event happening on December 22, 1944. That day, the Germans tried to persuade the besieged American troops in the Bastogne perimeter to surrender. Their answer is written in History …… NUTS! Testimony of Mrs GUEBEN-LEFEBVRE wife of Aymard Gueben, civilian, 23 years old in 1944. Our family had
- [December 11-12, 2021 (NUTS Weekend).](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/december-11-12-2021-nuts-weekend/) - Home
- [Paul J. Wiedorfer Trail](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/paul-j-wiedorfer-trail/) - Home
- [Fauvillers](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/fauvillers-2/) - The construction of the site started. Home
- [Monuments](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/monuments/) - Over the years, a lot of monuments and commemorative plates have been erected or placed at various locations throughout Luxembourg. This to commemorate the several units that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. (Click on the photos to enlarge.) Home
- [Faces of Chaumont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/faces-of-chaumont/) - This is a project initialized by the “Ardennes Breakthrough Association asbl”, in cooperation with “La Mémoire Civile 1940-1945”. In remembrance of those who fought and sadly those who died in the area of Chaumont between December 23, 1944 and December 26, 1944. Additional information on these men, as well as photos, is welcome and can
- [FERULLO, James L. - 328IR](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/ferullo-james-l-328ir/) - ASN: 31353850.Date of Enlistment: 27 April 1943.Place of Enlistment: Boston Massachusetts. (Click on the photos to enlarge.) Personal accounts (US) Home
- [DEWIRE, John A. - 101IR](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/dewire-john-a-101ir/) - Personal accounts Home
- [POPE, Edgar A. - 328IR](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/pope-edgar-a-328ir/) - Was drafted instead.Took basic training Fort Jackson, South Carolina.Camp Gorden, Georgia.Camp Campbell, KentuckyCamp Forrest, Tennessee -> maneuvers.Shipped out from Camp Shank, New York to Utah Beach, Normandy.Ed was assigned to C Company, 328th Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division. Personal accounts (US) Home
- [26th Infantry Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/26th-infantry-division/) - (Click on the photos to enlarge.) Then & Now Home
- [80th Infantry Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/80th-infantry-division-2/) - Then & Now Home
- [Luxembourg](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/luxembourg/) - CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION ! Personal accounts Then & Now Monuments Home
- [Trou du Loup](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/trou-du-loup/) - Then & Now Home
- [Tiger II 03 - Abteilung 506](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/tiger-ii-03-abteilung-506/) - Then & Now Home
- [Villers-la-Bonne-Eau](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/villers-la-bonne-eau/) - Tiger II "03" Trou du Loup Then & Now Home
- [Vaux-sur-Sûre](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/vaux-sur-sure/) - Then & Now Home
- [Tintange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/tintange/) - Then & Now Home
- [Martelange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/martelange/) - Then & Now Home
- [Losange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/losange/) - Then & Now Home
- [Hotte](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/hotte/) - Then & Now Home
- [Habay-la-Vieille](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/habay-la-vieille/) - The Jeep was part of Operation “L’EGLISE” (Jan 10-15, 1945). This was one of a series of operations by the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops or the so-called “Ghost Army”. One of the missions was to act as a different unit in order to confuse the enemy as to the location of the real unit. More
- [Habay-la-Neuve](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/habay-la-neuve/) - Then & Now Home
- [Grandrue](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/grandrue/) - Then & Now Home
- [Cobreville](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/cobreville/) - Then & Now Home
- [Burnon](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/burnon/) - Then & Now Home
- [Bodange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bodange/) - Then & Now Home
- [Lost in time ...](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/lost-in-time/) - Were they returning to their home? What would they have found there? Burned down? Destroyed by artillery fire? Who are they?Lost in time … The first photo shows a destroyed halftrack of the 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion (4th Armored Division) putting them on the road from Assenois to the bunker site where the 4th Armored
- [Assenois corridor.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/assenois-corridor/) - Location discovered by Ivan Steenkiste, photos by Jérémie Chenot-Nosh. Private Frank KELLY, Military Policeman in the 4th Armored Division, escorting German prisoners of the 5. Fallschirmjäger Division and 26. Volksgrenadier Division on the road from Bastogne to Assenois. The halftrack most likely is of the 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 4th Armored Division. Date: on or
- [Assenois area](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/assenois-area/) - Bastogne corridor Lost in time Then & Now Home
- [Projects](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/projects-2/) - Assenois bunker Beech Tree Burnon Bridge Clochimont Col. Cohen Street Fauvillers Gen. Irzyk Park Hendrix Monument Wiedorfer Trail Home
- [Bastogne Barracks (Heintz Caserne)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bastogne-barracks-heintz-caserne/) - Home
- [Pelkey, Leslie A. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/pelkey-leslie-a-4th-armored-division/) - Special thanks to Dan Edder for providing photos and additional information. Remembrance Home
- [Howard, James S. - 559th Field Artillery Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/howard-james-s-559th-field-artillery-bn/) - January 1943 saw him transferred to the Headquarters Company of the 771st TD Bn, this time at Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont and with the grade of Corporal.Some time between April and August 1943, Cpl. Howard was transferred to Headquarters Company of the 655th Tank Destroyer Battalion which was located at Camp Hood, Texas. This
- [Other units](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/other-units/) - Howard 559FABn Remembrance Home
- [Friedel, Erwin - 5. Fallschirmjäger Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/friedel-erwin-5-fallschirmjager-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Prigge, Hans - 5. Fallschirmjäger Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/prigge-hans-5-fallschirmjager-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Wiedorfer, Paul J. - 80th Infantry Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/wiedorfer-paul-j-80th-infantry-division/) - Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. Passed away on May 25, 2011 (aged 90)Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA. Army Service Number: 33729860 A Baltimore native, he worked at the city’s Gas & Electric Company and was married when he joined the US Army in 1943. Assigned as a Private to Company, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry
- [Remembering – 80th Infantry Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remembering-80th-infantry-division/) - Carr Wiedorfer Remembrance Home
- [Carr, Walter P. – 80th Infantry Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/carr-walter-p-80th-infantry-division/) - Patton’s Vanguard – Don Fox:At 0430 (December 27, 1944), just shy of a dozen hours after Lt. Boggess had met the 101st at the pillbox, a patrol led by 1st Lt. Walter Carr of E Company, 2nd Battalion 318th Regiment (attached to CCB, 4th Armored Division) made contact with the 101st Airborne Division. He was
- [Traynor, Harry - 704th Tank Destroyer Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/traynor-harry-704th-tank-destroyer-bn/) - Remembrance Home
- [Remembering - 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remembering-704th-tank-destroyer-battalion/) - Bowman Prusaczyk Righton Traynor Remembrance Home
- [Righton, Walter C. - 704th Tank Destroyer Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/righton-walter-c-704th-tank-destroyer-bn/) - Remembrance Home
- [Prusaczyk, John F. - 704th Tank Destroyer Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/prusaczyk-john-f-704th-tank-destroyer-bn/) - Remembrance Home
- [Bowman, Richard W. - 704th Tank Destroyer Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bowman-richard-w-704th-tank-destroyer-bn/) - Suffolk County, New York, USA. Army Service Number: 32624565. He entered the service on Nov. 10, 1942 in New York city. He became a Combat Medic and was assigned to the Medical Detachment of the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion. While in France, a sniper shot the helmet right off his head. Richard was only
- [Ruhlen, George - 9th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/george-ruhlen-9th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Remembering - 9th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/9th-armored-division-2/) - Ruhlen Remembrance Home
- [Rybak, Lawrence - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/rybak-lawrence-4th-armored-division/) - “The second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Bronze Star Medal is awarded to Technician Fourth Grade Lawrence Rybak, 32211803, Armored, 8th Tank Battalion , U.S. Army for heroic action in connection with military operations against armed enemy of the United States, on 24 (sic) December 1944 at Chaumont , Belgium. Tech 4th grade Rybak”s platoon
- [Rucinski, Stanley J. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/rucinski-stanley-j-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Rockafeller, Harry J. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/rockafeller-harry-j-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Odle, Alfred E. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/odle-alfred-a-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Marcinkiewicz, Wallace - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/marcinkiewicz-wallace-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Manees, Fred M. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/manees-fred-m-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Lowry, Clyde D. Jr. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/lowry-clyde-d-jr-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Kieley, Leonard H. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/kieley-leonard-h-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Jackson, Homan K. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/jackson-homan-k-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Irving, Richard R. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/irving-richard-r-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Hemcher, George J. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/hemcher-george-j-4th-armored-division/) - During the Ardennes Offensive, the 66th AFA Bn mainly was with Combat Command A of the 4th Armored Division and was involved in giving artillery support for its units in the battles for Martelange, Warnach, and holding the opened corridor into Bastogne. Remembrance Home
- [Hendrix, James R. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/hendrix-james-r-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Harris, John H. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/harris-john-h-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Guay, George E. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/guay-george-e-4th-armored-division/) - On January 4, 1945, the 53rd AIB moved to Chaumont (and became mobile reserve under Combat Command B control). Remembrance Home
- [GREEN, Carl W. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/green-carl-w-4th-armored-division/) - ASN: O-1011089 (Click on the maps/photos to enlarge.) Born: 7 Oct 1913, Presque Isle, Aroostook County, Maine, USA. Married Theresa Maria Main Green in 1943. Died: 27 Feb 1974 (aged 60), Westwood, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA. After the heavy fighting in and around Warnach, Belgium, Combat Command A of the 4th Armored Division
- [Cox, Delmas W. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/cox-delmas-w-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Boggess, Charles Perry Jr. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/boggess-charles-perry-jr-4th-armored-division/) - ORLANDO SENTINEL :May 1, 1985AUSTIN, TEXAS — “Charles Perry Boggess, 73, whose tank led American troops that broke the last major German offensive of World War II, in the Battle of the Bulge, died Saturday. Boggess, a first lieutenant, was in command of the first tank that broke through German lines in December 1944 and
- [Blackmer, William K. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/blackmer-william-k-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Bernal, Alexander - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bernal-alexander-4th-armored-division/) - One of these men was Sergeant Alexander Joseph Bernal, 29 years old … Remembrance Home
- [Adkins, Alfred - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/adkins-alfred-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Adams, Clarence A. - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/adams-clarence-a-25th-cavalry-reconnaissance-sqdn/) - Remembrance Home
- [Unknown Lieutenant - 4th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/unknown-lieutenant-4th-armored-division/) - Remembrance Home
- [Remember them!](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remember-them/) - 4th Armored 704th TD Bn 705th TD Bn 811th TD Bn 9th Armored 80th Infantry 5. Fallschirmjäger Other units Remembrance Home
- [Brooks, Frank W. - 705th Tank Destroyer Bn](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/brooks-frank-w-705th-tank-destroyer-bn/) - Remembrance Home
- [Remembering - 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/705th-tank-destroyer-battalion/) - BROOKS Frank Remembrance Home
- [Remembering - 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/811th-tank-destroyer-battalion/) - Pasela Stanley Remembrance Home
- [Routes (German)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/routes-german/) - FJR14/5FJD Panzer Lehr 167.VGD Home
- [Panzer Lehr moves through.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/panzer-lehr-moves-through/) - Routes (German) Home
- [Fallschirmjäger Regiment 14](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/fallschirmjager-regiment-14/) - Commander of the 5. Fallschirmjäger Division (FJD). Born on 9 August 1903 in Würzburg. Died on 26 October 1959 (aged 56) in Kempten (Germany). Routes (German) Home
- [35th Infantry Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/35th-infantry-division-2/) - Routes (US) Home
- [The 318th In Belgium.](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/the-318th-in-belgium/) - Photos taken by Erwin Verholen. Wartime photos: Bundesarchiv and US Army (Signal) Corps. Map sections compiled from a 1943-dated map. Sources: After Action Report, 318th Infantry Regiment, as well as various internet sources and books. Routes (US) Home
- [Army Engineers at Martelange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/army-engineers-at-martelange/) - Primary article by Jérémie Chenot-Nosh. Additional information by Erwin Verholen. Sources: Pascal Kerger,Cedric Toucheque www.battleofthebulgememories.be (Henri Rogister)”Action at Martelange ; with the 1278th Engineer Combat Battalion”US Army (Signal Corps) photosBundesarchiv Routes (US) Home
- [3rd Armored Field Artillery Bn (Belgium)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/3rd-armored-field-artillery-bn-belgium/) - The 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion (3rd AFA) was commanded by Major General (then: Lieutenant-Colonel) George Ruhlen. His unit was involved in the follow-up actions after the German encirclement of Bastogne was broken on December 26, 1944. Previously, the 3rd AFA was in Luxembourg and was one of the units hit first when the Battle
- [The 28th sector south of Bastogne](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/the-28th-sector-south-of-bastogne/) - Routes (US) Home
- [CCB towards Chaumont](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/ccb-towards-chaumont/) - Photos taken by Ivan Steenkiste, Mathieu Carré and Erwin Verholen. This page is dedicated to Roos Steenkiste, faithful partner of Ivan Steenkiste, who accompanied him on his quests into history and was part of our association as well. Sadly, she left us on April 27, 2021, but she will remain forever in our hearts. Routes
- [N85 Rue de Neufchâteau](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n85-rue-de-neufchateau/) - Home
- [N84 Marvie](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n84-marvie/) - Home
- [N84 Route de Wiltz](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n84-route-de-wiltz/) - Home
- [N84 Route de Marche](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n84-route-de-marche/) - Home
- [N30 towards Houffalize](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n30-towards-houffalize/) - Home
- [N874-N30 Route de La Roche](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n874-n30-route-de-la-roche/) - Home
- [N874 Rue Gustave Delperdange](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/n874-rue-gustave-delperdange/) - Home
- [Bastogne cemetery](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/bastogne-cemetery/) - Home
- [US units](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/us-units/) - 4th Armored Division 6th Armored Division 9th Armored Division 10th Armored Division 28th Infantry Division 35th Infantry Division 80th Infantry Division 101st Airborne Division Engineer units Tank Destroyer units Home
- [6th Armored Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/6th-armored-division/) - US units Home
- [Inauguration Gen. Irzyk Park 08.05.2022](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/inauguration-gen-irzyk-park-08-05-2022/) - Photos and text: Ivan Steenkiste & Erwin Verholen. Home
- [Paul J. Wiedorfer Trail](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/paul-j-wiedorfer-trail-2/) - G Company, 2nd Battalion, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division. Home
- [James R. Hendrix, Medal of Honor](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/james-r-hendrix-medal-of-honor/) - Army Serial Number: 38599217Born: August 20, 1925, Lepanto, Arkansas (USA)Died: November 14, 2002, Davenport, Florida (USA) C Company, 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 4th Armored Division Home
- [Chaumont Commemoration 75](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/chaumont-commemoration-75/) - Home
- [Commemoration 09.02.2019](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/commemoration-09-02-2019/) - Home
- [Commemoration 15.12.2018 (NUTS Weekend)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/commemoration-15-12-2018-nuts-weekend/) - Photo: René Godefroid. Home
- [Hendrix monument Assenois](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/hendrix-monument-assenois/) - More information can be found in the “Remember them!” section, under “4th Armored Division”. Home
- [General Irzyk Memorial Park](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/general-irzyk-memorial-park/) - Home
- [Clochimont crossroads](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/clochimont-crossroads/) - Home
- [Burnon bridge site](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/burnon-bridge-site/) - Home
- [Beech Tree](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/beech-tree/) - Home
- [Assenois bunker site](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/assenois-bunker-site/) - Home
- [About](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/about/) - About Our Passion Our team is involved in studying the former battlefield either on the terrain itself as well as via several (virtual) sources. This includes after-action reports, personal testimonies and all sorts of other documents. This from the Allied side, as well as the German and civilian side. Next to this, there is the
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- [408. Volks-Artillerie-Korps](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/408-volks-artillerie-korps/) - German units Home
- [Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/schwere-panzerjager-abteilung-653/) - German units Home
- [Fallschirm-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 11](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/fallschirm-sturmgeschutz-brigade-11/) - German units Home
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- [167. Volksgrenadier Division](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/167-volksgrenadier-division/) - Grenadier-Regiment 339Grenadier-Regiment 387Divisions-Füsilier-Kompanie 167Artillerie-Regiment 167Divisionseinheiten 167 German units Home
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- [Units](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/units/) - Overview of the different units involved in this sector of the Ardennes.Only the (part of the) units that actually were present in this sector are shown. US units German units Home
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- [Remember them! (part 2)](https://ardennes-breakthrough-association.com/remember-them-part-2/) - 5. Fallschirmjäger Division 80th Infantry Division 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion 559th Field Artillery Battalion 9th Armored Division This section is a remembrance page (part two). In honor of all who fought (and died) in the Ardennes Offensive. Never forget!
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