Anthony C. McAuliffe's sleeping quarters adjacent to ... Just before reaching the Panzer Lehr Headquarters, they saw the car of General von Manteuffel parked by a thicket of trees.
parade” on Sunday. The parade got its name from the now-infamous reply of Brigade General Anthony McAuliffe when he learned that the German army had sent soldiers demanding surrender from the U ...
Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe, famously replied to a formal surrender request with one word: 'Nuts!' Patton's Third Army, advancing from the south, relieved Bastogne on 26 December.
Thus began a Christmas Eve message from General Anthony McAuliffe to his troops besieged ... Christmas breaking the advance of the German army in one of the most storied fights in American history.
Less than four months later, Hitler was dead, and the Third Reich was out of business. And Anthony McAuliffe, who retired from the Army as a four-star general in 1956, carried for the rest of his days ...