Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe's Christmas letter to the US 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne, Belgium in which he recreated the German surrender demand and his response to it

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Caption     Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe's Christmas letter to the US 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne, Belgium in which he recreated the German surrender demand and his response to it ww2dbase
Date 24 Dec 1944
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Army via Wikimedia Commons
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Photo Size 1,212 x 1,756 pixels



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1. William M Holloway says:
24 Feb 2024 04:13:50 PM

Does this letter, Christmas/NUTS, exist today, if so where? US Military Academy?

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