In the first week, the Germans besieged Bastogne and advanced almost 100 kilometers West to the village of Foy Notre Dame, near Dinant, before improved weather and reinforcements allowed the Allies to cripple German supply lines – pushing them back for one final time. Germany’s surprise attack through the forested terrain of Ardennes (Eastern Belgium) inflicted massive casualties to the Allied forces. The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was the final major offensive campaign by German forces on the Western front in WW2. The village of Foy was made famous by the exceptional TV Mini Series “Band of Brothers”. In the historical photograph we see a wrecked Panzer IV tank.
Church in Foy, Belgium, near Bastogne, pictured in January 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge, and in 2019.
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