Henri Mignon Bastogne Bulge Easy Company Tours

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Petit Séminaire.

I studied the classics there for 6 years.

Headquarters of the 501st Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during the siege of Bastogne.

Today the exhibition"I was 20 in Bastogne in 1945" is accommodated there

In front of my Battery during a parade on the MacAuliffe Square in Bastogne

Reporting to His Majesty  King Baudoin of Belgium

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Giving orders after the reconnaissance in presence of the commander of the divisionary artillery

Young Captain

Reconnoitering in the snow on the Elsenborn Ridge

The monument of the 2nd Infantry Division, Indian Head

and the monument of the 99th Infantry Division, Checkerboard Division or "Battle Babies" are on the same place in the "Twin Villages", Krinkelt and Röchrath. From there both divisions had to withdraw and occupied positions on the Elsenborn Ridge

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Breakfast in the Hotel Melba with Buck Compton and Babe Heffron.

With "Babe" and "Wild Bill" in the Belgian Barracks, MacAuliffe's HQ and place where the famous "NUTS" was pronounced

 

In the foxholes of the Easy Company in the Bois Jacques close to Foy with Buck Compton and Don Malarky

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In front of the Sherman tank on the MacAuliffe Square in Bastogne

From right to left me, Mr Goldstein who was the machine-gunner of the tank, my wife Marianne and Mr Goldstein's family members.

With my Wife and General Albin IRZYK, commander of the 8th Tank Battalion of the 4th Armored Division in Chaumont (Patton Third Army)

Visiting the Woods of Peace with Mrs and General Harry KINARD, G3 of the 101st Airborne Division who suggested the "NUTS" to General MacAuliffe

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Fort BOGGESS. Place of

the breakthrough by Lt  BOGGESS coming from ASSENOIS at the head of a Combat Team of the 4th Armored Division

 

HOUFFALIZE, junction of Patton's 3rd Army and HODGES' 1st Army on January 1945 during the counter-attack.

LANZERATH where Lt Lyle BOUCK Jr. commanding the Intelligence and Rennnaissace (I&R) platoon of the 99th Infantry Division stopped for a full day PEIPER's spearhead

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