Have a question? Need assistance? Use our online form to ask a librarian for help.
Episode Six: The Ghost Front
December 1944 - March 1945
The Battle of the Bulge, Germany’s final major offensive of the war, began in December 1944 in Belgium’s Ardennes Forest. It not only slowed down the Allies’ drive to the Rhine River; the winter weather, the coldest in Europe in decades, took a huge toll on troops on both sides.
The Pacific Theater’s most dramatic moment came during the battle to take Iwo Jima, when U.S. forces raised the American flag on Mount Surabachi, the island’s volcanic peak that was a honeycomb of Japanese defensive bunkers and tunnels.
Battle of the Bulge
"How did I feel through all of this? Scared to death, naturally..."