A film depicts the Battle of the Bulge in the area of Bastogne, Belgium by U.S. troops during World War II. Belgian civilians are evacuated from an area. Civilians and soldiers in an area. Guns on a field. U.S. aircraft flying in formation to deliver supplies, ammunition, and food to U.S. Army forces including 101st Airborne Infantry soldiers fighting in the battle of the Bulge. Soldiers watching the airplanes through binoculars. Point of view shot from inside a glider hooked via a tow rope to an aircraft in flight, preparing to cut loose for glide to the ground. Aerial view of the target area. The airplanes in flight overhead. Supplies are being dropped via parachutes. View inside supply aircraft as troops push supplies out of doors. Gliders loaded with supplies and equipment landing in a snow covered area in time for Christmas 1944. Combat in the snow with a night artillery barrage by American soldiers firing at the Germans. U.S. soldiers using flame throwers at night directed at Germans. Dead bodies of German soldiers lying on the snow covered battlefield the next day. German prisoners of war standing under the guard of the U.S. soldiers, some of German prisoners found wearing civilian clothing or wearing pieces of U.S. uniforms. The 101st Airborne Infantry soldiers march in a victory celebration in town. A board reads: "Bastogne Bastion of the Battered Bastards of the 101st."
U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge of World War 2. A U.S. Army Air Force Douglas C-47 Skytrain transports to the encircled 101st Airborne Division (United States). Supplies dropped by parachute from the C-47 aircraft. The gathering of the supplies, and a snow covered wrecked C-47.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II. Snow covered tanks. U.S. troops in foxholes and trenches-ground covered by snow. The tanks fire. A soldier using a field telephone. Soldiers fire guns.
U.S. 6th Armored Division in Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II. Opening scene shows German soldiers surrendering from positions in the forest. Snow covers the ground and they emerge with hands up. A group of German prisoners under guard. U.S. soldier comes upon a German foxhole. Camera shows a wounded German soldier lying on a bed of straw in the trench. Next scene shows U.S. troops carrying a wounded on a stretcher. Scene shifts to group of German prisoners of war assembled outdoors, under guard by U.S. soldiers. Several German officers are interrogated separately. Then other German prisoners are seen being interrogated. A sizeable group of German prisoners is escorted under guard across snowy field.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II. Soldiers file through a forest. A soldier using a field telephone. The U.S. tank after it strikes a land mine and explodes. A soldier watches through binoculars. A U.S. soldier in a fox hole. The tank fires. The injured crew members of the tank carried on stretchers. U.S. soldiers walk on a snow-covered road.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium in World War II. Soldiers dig trench graves. Covered bodies of dead U.S. soldiers lie in the snow, awaiting burial. Demolished vehicles on a snow-covered road. Soldiers examine damaged vehicles. One points out various holes in a vehicle. U.S. Commander of 101st Airborne Division, Major General Maxwell Taylor, congratulates the Division's Artillery Commander, Brigadier General Anthony Clement McAuliffe for the defense of Bastogne. They stand on a snowy street in front of a sign on a building, reading Bastogne .