BLOW OF HEART

THE FOUNTAINS OF BASTOGNE - 1995"


The small figures are "Piche Cacaye".
Creation : architecture : Jacques Windeshausen - sculptures : Willy Dory - foundryman : Freddy Baggen.

 

Calendar

Throughout 2011

Workgroup - Discovery "wellness - yoga"

26/09/2011->25/06/2012

Bastogne

Walk: On the trails of 268 km

26/12/2011->31/12/2012

Amberloup

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General Mc Auliffe Monument

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Description

Division Artillery Commander and Acting Division Commander of the 101st US Airborne Division, ‘The Screaming Eagles’, Brigadier-General Anthony McAuliffe commanded the successful defence of Bastogne, and on 22 December, when German emissaries demanded his surrender, he gave them his now famous reply of “Nuts”. (Place McAuliffe). (text source by Guy Blockmans/OPT).