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."
Gliders parked on a field in Brussels, Belgium during world War II. A glider with an insignia of the United States on the field. Buildings in the background. A soldier enters a glider and other exits. A view of the gliders across the field. The wings of the gliders with the insignia of the United States.
U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division advances in Sterpigny, Belgium during World War 2. M-4 tank with dozer blade clearing snow from road. It moves past damaged German Mark V Panther tank. Photographer with a camera taking pictures, while lying in snow. Across the road behind him, U.S. soldiers, in a parked 3/4 ton truck, are hit by gunfire from unseen source, and tumble from the truck,to the ground, where they writhe in pain. One of their unhurt companions runs for help, as a jeep stops near the truck. Next, soldiers are seen lifting the wounded from the truck, on litters. Medics carry them into a building.
U.S. Army 3rd Armored Division advance in Sterpigny, Belgium during World War 2. Knocked out German Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer and American M4 Sherman tanks, line side of a road. Soldiers examine them. Tired, cold, unshaven U.S. soldiers march on snow covered road past the damaged tanks.
Dead Germans in Ambleve, Belgium during World War 2. Two U.S. Army soldiers examine several dead German soldiers frozen in the snow. Dead German soldiers lying in the snow.
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.