The Ardennes Counteroffensive, better known as the Battle of the Bulge, was 76 years ago this month. What those men experienced during the coldest winter Europe had seen in decades was hard to imagine. All told the conflict claimed over 10,000 American lives, with more than 47,000 wounded and 23,000 missing in action. Just 40 years before I was born, my Grandfather was deep in the forest of Belgium involved in this offensive with the 8th Infantry Division, just after he had survived the nightmares of the Huertgen Forest. I never heard the stories, only vague rumors of what happened.
Taken in the Adirondacks in winter 2018, this is my tribute to these brave men and their hardship and sacrifice. The ghostly soldiers in this image are from historical photographs of unidentified troops marching into the Ardennes.
