Ardennes
"The Battle of the Bulge"

Photographs Courtesy of Pierre Constant, Brussels, Belgium
**(Except where otherwise noted underneath the photographs.)
***(The very interesting captions are Pierre's also.)

KRINKELT MONUMENT
Thanks to the tireless efforts and selfless sacrifices of the Second Division's own James Branch, Pierre Constant and Hans Wijers and other European friends of the Second Division, the Krinkelt Monument was finally put into place on October 19, 2002.

Heartbreak Crossroad, February 2001
Foxhole 30 yards from the crossroad. The road comes from Krinkelt-Rocherath, turns left to Monschau and right to Schleiden and Hellenthal.
Walherscheid Road
view of the famous road just South of Heartbreak crossroads
Camp Elsenborn, a part of Elsenborn Ridge.
The little road in the middle of the picture is the actual tank track.
Heartbreak Crossroads is in the forest in the very right on this photo
Büllingen
The place is the spot where the German forced American prisonners to fill their gas tanks full.
Krinkelt/Wirtzfeld
Sunshine on Krinkelt and Wirtzfeld today (2002)
Krinkelt photo aken along the road Büllingen to Krinkelt
and towards
+/- the North
Wirtzfeld photo is taken towards the West (towards Camp Elsenborn)
Crossroad in Krinkelt
**(Photo Credit: From the photograph album of Jess Ray Styles, who served
with the 741st Tank Bn., which was attached to the 2 ID during the
Battle of the Bulge. Submitted by his son, Dan.)
Krinkelt church to Heartbreak crossroads Kalpers house
Rocherath
**(Photo Credit: From the photograph album of Jess Ray Styles, who served with the 741st Tank Bn., which was attached to the 2 ID during the Battle of the Bulge. Submitted by his son, Dan.)

This is main street Rocherath. The house on the right has a most unusual shaped roof and is located on the east side of the main street less than a hundred yards north of the present day church. The house itself is square and had four large shell holes in the north gable end. It was repaired post war and is still there today.
1941 Jeep in the forest through the 99th and 2nd Division positions. (Photograph 2001)

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