Sign up for the Army Times Daily News Roundup to receive the top Army stories every afternoon. By giving us your email, you are opting in to the Army Times Daily News Roundup. The men of I&R Platoon, 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Division were the most decorated platoon of that battle and the entire war. Retired Army Col. Frank Cohn, 94, was a private during the battle and serving as a German translator with a small team when fighting broke out. The unit would receive no real recognition of what the Army later called, a “courageous and almost last-ditch stand” that held up German forces in decisive hours as the Battle of the Bulge commenced.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 17, 2019 17:03 UTC