If you want to look around on your own below is a suggested itinerary for a battlefield visit to the Ardennes. If you need to know more then don't hesitate to contact me. 

• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• General Anthony McAuliffe
• General Omar Nelson Bradley
• Field Marshall Montgomery
• Dwight D Eisenhower. Allied Supreme Commander
• Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt
• Joachim Peiper

Day 1  Day one THE BULGE Northern shoulder + Center Houfallize ( Panther tank allied bombing) Gouvy (strafed 75mm German artillery piece) St. Vith 106th Schnee Eiffel (capture of 106th) Prumerberg. Courageous stand of the 168th Bütgenbach. Big Red One Monument Wereth.Monument to the 333rd Afro American Arty unit (supporting the 106th Inf Dv) Poteau 14th Cav Ambush site Malmedy/Baugnez - massacre site La Gleize (Tiger Roller bahn D)

Day 2  Day Two THE BULGE Siege of Bastogne McAuliffe's HQ Bastogne Mardasson memorial Band of brothers sites Bois Jacques foxholes (101st) Memorial (101st) Foy attack by 101st Bizory/Neffe road Noville (Team De Soubry 101st)

Day 3  Day Three THE BULGE Southern shoulder Assenois (Lt. Charles Boggess Pillbox,meeting place of 3rd Army and 101st. Kessler Farm (Where the famous 'NUTS' message was delivered Visit WWII museum in Die Kirsch Patton Monument Ettelbruck Military Cemetery at Ham (last resting place of Gen. George Patton. General George S Patton Jr. born on November 11, 1885 in San Gabriel, California. His military career was one of the most colorful of all 20th Century military leaders. On November 8, 1942, Patton commanded the Western Task Force, the only all American force, landing in North Africa. After the American defeat at Kasserine Pass, he was given command of all American forces in the Tunisia Combat Area. He commanded the Seventh army during the invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and served in this capacity until March 1944, when he was given command of the Third Army, which became operational in France in August 1944. When American forces broke through the German defences, Patton's Third Army dashed across Europe and exploited German weaknesses with remarkable success. In October 1945, he assumed command of the Fifteenth Army in American-occupied Germany. On December 21, 1945, General Patton died in Germany as a result of an automobile accident. He is buried among the soldiers who died in the Battle of the Bulge in Hamm, Luxembourg. General Patton was well-known for his tactic of appearing often in the midst of his front-line troops. The fact that he ignored personal danger served as an inspiration to his men. General Anthony McAuliffe United States Army General who commanded the force defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. He was famous for his single-word reply to a German surrender ultimatum. McAuliffe was serving as Commander of Division Artillery of the 101st Airborne Division when he parachuted into Normandy on D-Day. In December of 1944, due to the absence of General Maxwell D. Taylor, McAuliffe was forced to serve as acting Commander of the 101st Airborne Division and its attached troops during the Siege of Bastogne. It was when they became surrounded and the Germans demanded their surrender that he sent back his now-famous reply to the German commander: "NUTS!". His forces were able to hold off the German siege until the 4th Armored Division was able to arrive to provide reinforcement. For his actions, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. General Omar Nelson Bradley During WORLD WAR II he commanded the U. S. 12th Army Group in Europe. By the spring of 1945 this group contained 4 field armies, 12 corps, 48 divisions, and more than 1,300,000 men, the largest exclusively American field command in U.S. history. A mild mannered man with a high-pitched voice, General Bradley created the impression less of a soldier than of a teacher, which he actually was during much of his early career in the Army (at the U. S. Military Academy and the Infantry School). Yet he earned a reputation as an eminent tactician and as a "soldier's soldier, a general with whom lower ranks could readily identify. Field Marshall Montgomery Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. First Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 1887–1976.In 1942 he was sent to Egypt to command the British 8th Army in Africa under the Middle Eastern Command headed by Gen. Sir Harold Alexander. Winning the battle of Alamein and driving the Germans 2,000 mi (3,200 km) across Africa into Tunisia (see North Africa, campaigns in) made Montgomery an idol of the British public. He led the 8th Army in Sicily and Italy until Dec., 1943. He helped formulate the invasion plan for France, and in the Normandy campaign he was field commander of all ground forces until Aug., 1944, then led the 21st Army Group. When the Germans advanced in the Battle of the Bulge, he was given temporary command of two American armies. Afterward his troops thrust across N Germany to the Baltic, and he headed (1945–46) the British occupation forces in Germany. He was made field marshal in 1944 and viscount in 1946. Dwight D Eisenhower. Allied Supreme Commander In May 1942, Eisenhower arrived in England on a special mission to build cooperation among the Allies as Commanding General, European Theater, and so began his meteoric rise in rank and fame. By November, he was named Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, North Africa, and carried out Operation Torch. In 1943, Eisenhower had his second test as Commander of the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy. Thereafter, the time had come to plan the gargantuan land, sea, and air forces that would become more commonly known as D-Day: the Allied Invasion of the continent. In December 1943, Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces, and the planning of Operation Overlord began in earnest.     June 6, 1944, D-day, was the beginning of the end for the war in Europe. Eisenhower was promoted to the rank of General of the Army (5 stars) in December of that year. When Germany surrendered in May 1945, Eisenhower was appointed Military Governor, US Occupied Zone. By then, Dwight D. Eisenhower was an international celebrity; he had earned the respect, admiration, and affection of people around the world. Allied victory in Europe culminated in joyous exhaustion. Eisenhower quickly became the centerpiece of speeches, grand parades, and throngs of admirers as grateful nations throughout Europe honored him. In June of 1945, Eisenhower returned to a hometown hero's welcome in Abilene, where her citizens honored him as they had no other.

Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt After the landing on June 6, 1944, Rundstedt withdrew German troops to the Seine River, which brought his dismissal and replacement on July 6. After his successor failed to reverse the situation and committed suicide, Rundstedt once again returned to the position of commander in chief West in September. In the following months he oversaw the declining fortunes of the German defense and watched with great consternation as Hitler's last gamble, the Ardennes offensive (Battle of the Bulge), failed in December 1944. Thoroughly disenchanted and quite ill, Rundstedt entered final retirement on March 13, 1945. He was captured by American troops in Bavaria on May 1 and was turned over to the British for trial. Because of Rundstedt's poor health, his trial never took place, and on May 26, 1946, he was released from a British military hospital. He died in Hanover on Feb. 24, 1953.

Joachim Peiper Joachim Peiper (also known as Jochen Peiper from the common nickname for Joachim), was a senior Waffen- SS officer, and commander in the Panzer campaigns of 1939-1945. Peiper was born on January 30, 1915. Peiper was recruited into the Waffen- SS in 1935 upon his graduation from college. Sepp Dietrich reviewed his application and admitted him into the "Leibstandarte- SS Adolf Hitler" honor guard regiment, which was re-formed as a Waffen/SS or military unit at the outbreak of war. At age 29, Peiper was a full colonel of the Waffen/SS and a holder of the Knight's Cross with Swords. He was a skilled leader, and took part in a number of major Panzer battles of the war. After the end of World War II, Peiper and other members of the Waffen-SS were tried for war crimes in the Malmedy Massacre trial, the Dachauer Prozess, and sentenced to death by hanging. The sentences of many of the Malmedy defendants were later commuted to life, and then to time served, and Peiper was released on parole from prison at the end of December 1956, after serving 11 1/2 years, much in solitary confinement, and 55 months on death row. After release, Peiper eventually went to live in Travès, France and supported himself as a translator. Just as he was starting to write a book on the Malmedy Massacre, Peiper was killed in a fire bomb attack on his house on July 14, 1976. A group of Frenchmen, wearing ski masks, were photographed as they announced, "We got Peiper." This photo was published on November 7, 1976, in the New York Times Magazine. The attackers were never prosecuted, but were suspected to be French Communists.