Cold and Misery

Bitter cold and snow during the Battle of the Bulge made conditions miserable for Allied soldiers. In Bastogne, German forces succeeded in trapping the Americans within the town for many weeks, making conditions there among the worst of the war. Frederick McDonald visited this front line position shortly after its liberation.

We ate in the open air fully coated and mittened at tables from which the snow had been swept aside, hovered over flaming oil drums which served as stoves, slept under canvas in a leafless orchard; then slid over icy roads along the west bank of the Meuse to Givet.

–Fred McDonald