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Lieutanant Colonel Creighton Abrams...
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...at his desk in Germany. His most-dramatic action came at Bastogne, Belgium, where the Germans had encircled the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945). Abrams’s battalion was the first element of the Third Army to break through the siege, on December 26, 1944. For his heroics in these engagements, he was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
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6/4/2023