Battle of the Bulge Museums
La Roche is one of those villages you will never regret visiting. Wether it’s for a drink or for a week of exploring the Battle of the Bulge battlefields. Ever since I came to Belgium to learn more about the German Counter Offensive my dad would stop in La Roche for a coffee. It’s a […]
For someone who doesn’t know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, going to Belgium or Luxembourg might be a total disaster for you. Where do you go to discover the history of the biggest counter attack ever faced by US troops in World War 2? Where are the battlefields? Which villages saw heavy […]
From Friday December 12th till Sunday December 14th the Bastogne 70th Anniversary took place! Because I had university on Friday we left very early on Saturday. In Bastogne I would meet up with a long-time subscriber Ben. Then Ben and I went to visit Ian Gardner in the 101st Airborne Museum “Le Mess”. There he […]
Did I just visit the battlefields? It was the first question I had after visiting the Bastogne Ardennes 44 Museum. Bastogne counts three museums at the moment and this was the only one I didn’t visit yet. The museum starts just like some other museums out there. Mannequins and lots of items are exhibited over the […]
On the last day of our holiday in Luxembourg we made a visit to the Musée de la Bataille des Ardennes in La Roche, Belgium. La Roche was bombed during the Battle of the Bulge and fierce fights took place in and around the village. Just outside the center you will find two tanks: An M4A1 […]
This museum has one of the biggest collection out there when it comes to World War 2 collectibles. From vehicles to personal gear to rations, this museum has it all! Besides the big collection, the museum also focus on the troops that fought here during the Battle of the Bulge. They give a lot of […]
“The most relics I’ve ever seen in a single museum” That’s what me and my dad said after visiting the Patton Memorial Museum in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg. During the Battle of the Bulge Ettelbruck saw heavy fightings between German and U.S. troops. For more than a month the area was part of what the germans called […]
On March 27th 2014 the new Bastogne War Museum opened it’s doors. I was lucky to visit it a few weeks after the opening. All I can say is that I had an amazing new experience of the battle of the bulge. The battles around Bastogne is told from four different perspectives. That from a […]
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