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The 'Bulge' area - The Ardennes - contains isolated villages of local stone buildings, open pastureland, forest, and attractive rivers

The beautiful Ardennes countryside in the autumn

Summertime in the Ardennes

The Ardennes in mid-winter

Remains of the Siegfried Line - anti-tank defences, built by the Nazis in the 1930's, survive on the German-Belgian border

Railway cottage near the Bois Jacques, Bastogne

Traces of foxholes and shell holes remain in the Bois Jacques north of Bastogne

The memorial to 'Easy Company' of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment ("Band of Brothers") by the Bois Jacques

Part of the US Memorial outside Bastogne

The final kilometer marker of the Voie de la Liberté ('Freedom Way') linking Normandy to Bastogne

Nearby Dinant on the river Meuse

Panther (Panzer V) tank at Grandmenil

Tiger II tank - 72 tons of it! - on display at La Gleize, left behind at the end of Col Peiper's furthest advance

Modern day re-enactors on the slopes above Trois Ponts

Misty morning, US cemetery at Luxembourg City (where General Patton is buried)

Bastogne train station (disused)