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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	Friedrich von der Heydte during the Ardennes Offensive, Dec 1944	Map showing German gains during first days of the Battle of the Bulge, 16-25 Dec 1944	Men of US 101st Airborne Division walking past dead comrades, killed during Christmas Eve bombing of Bastogne, Belgium, 25 Dec 1944

Remains of German soldiers who attempted to attack the US 101st Airborne Division command post near Bastogne, Belgium, 25 Dec 1944	Troops of Company H, 3rd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment, US 82nd Airborne Division escorting a captured German SS soldier, Bra, Belgium, 25 Dec 1944; photo taken by 162nd Signal Photographic Company combat photographer Emil Edgren	US convoy sailing between Leyte and Mindoro in the Philippine Islands, 25-31 Dec 1944	American ambulance waiting outside a bombed building in Bastogne, Belgium while a searcher looked for persons injured during the ten-day defense by US 101st Airborne Division, 26 Dec 1944

Downed Japanese special attack aircraft burning in the water, between Leyte and Mindoro in the Philippine Islands, 25-31 Dec 1944	German prisoners of war digging graves for killed men of US 101st Airborne Division, near Bastogne, Belgium, late Dec 1944	Map noting the objective of and actual ground gained during the German Arennes Offensive, 16-26 Dec 1944	Troops of US 101st Airborne Division watching C-47 Skytrain aircraft delivering supplies to their unit, Bastogne, Belgium, 26 Dec 1944

A volley of rifle fire memorialized Americans fallen during the attack on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 27 Dec 1944	Armored reconnaissance jeep of US 82nd Airborne Division, Ardennes Forest, Belgium, Dec 1944	Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe and Lieutenant Colonel Harry Kinnard II at Bastogne, Belgium, late Dec 1944	Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower, and George Patton at Bastogne, Belgium, late Dec 1944

German prisoners taken during the Battle of the Bulge, circa late Dec 1944	Task Force 38 operational track for Operation Gratitude into the South China Sea, Dec 30, 1944 through Jan 26, 1945.	US 5th Armored Regiment tankers gathering around a fire and opening Christmas presents, near Eupen, Belgium, 30 Dec 1944; note M4 Sherman tank	US Army Sergeant James Storey, Private Frank Fox, and Corporal Dennis Lavanoha on a scouting mission, Lellig, Luxembourg, 30 Dec 1944; note bedsheets used for camouflage