This Week in American Military History  Dec. 26, 1944:  Elements of the U.S. 4th Armored Division – the spearhead of Gen. George S. Patton Jr.’s Third Army – break the German Army’s siege of Bastogne relieving the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division. The grateful but proud Airborne soldiers insist they are only being “relieved,” … Continue reading From Patton’s Breakthrough to Howard’s Heroics