Many have heard of the massacres at Malmedy and Wereth, but may not have heard of a barbaric event that took place just outside of Bastogne on December 19th, 1944 where a casualty clearing station was brutally attacked by the invading German army. We're going to the site of this lesser known massacre with a few artifacts from the collection of The Gettysburg Museum of History that belonged to a soldier who barely escaped with his life.

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