101st Airborne Division Troops Return to Bastogne to Mark 80th Anniversary of Battle of the Bulge
The siege of Bastogne was lifted on Dec. 26, 1944, when a tank column from the 4th Armored Division of then-Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army reached the city led by a Sherman tank nicknamed the Cobra King -- now on display at the National Museum of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir,