Siege of Bastogne - Aftermath

Aftermath

The 101st Airborne Division's casualties from 19 December 1944 to 6 January 1945 were 341 killed, 1,691 wounded, and 516 missing. The 10th Armored Division's CCB incurred approximately 500 casualties. On 12 December 2011 Augusta Chiwy was awarded the Civilian Award for Humanitarian Service which was handed to her by Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman. Chiwy was a Belgian nurse, born in the Congo but then living in Bastogne, who saved the lives of many GIs during the siege. The reason for the delay in awarding the honor was that for many years it was believed that she had died when a bomb hit her hospital.

• Map of troop movements during the battle of the Bulge. Bastogne is near the middle.

• Letter from General McAuliffe on Christmas Day to the 101st Airborne troops defending Bastogne.

• 101st Airborne troops picking up air-dropped supplies during the siege.

• 44th Armored Infantry and 6th Armored Division tanks near Bastogne, 31 December 1944

• General Patton's jeep in Bastogne, 1 January 1945.

• Members of C Company, 9th Engineers, conduct a memorial service for those killed during the siege, 22 January 1945.

• Infantry of relief force near Bastogne, December 1944.