To save Bastogne

by Robert F. Phillips

The situation -- Attack! -- Weiler is overwhelmed -- Hosingen besieged -- 2nd Panzer drives for Clervaux -- End of the first day : still holding -- Fuller's counterattack fails -- Holding, but just barely -- 1st Battalion is kaput -- Holzthum is lost -- Confontation at Consthum -- The Alamo all over again -- The front disintegrates -- Hosingen and Consthum fall -- Retreat to Wiltz -- 9th Armored meets the 2nd Panzer -- Team Cherry at Longvilly -- Team O'Hara fulfills its mission -- Team Desobry's turn in the meat grinder -- Noville is lost -- Wiltz must be held -- Disaster at Wiltz -- Retreat once more -- Massacre at Cafe Schumann -- No way out -- Colonel Strickler's odyssey -- Down but not out.