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Handfinished Art Car Boot Fair 2021 print - 101st Airborne Division
Handfinished Art Car Boot Fair 2021 print - 101st Airborne Division
A letter from General McAuliffe on Christmas Day to the 101st Airborne troops defending Bastogne.

Handfinished Art Car Boot Fair 2021 print - 101st Airborne Division

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1 Colour Screen Print with handfinishing taken from the sold out edition of art car boot fair 2021 prints ! 

35 x 50cm

Hand screenprinted by Pure Evil on the new 6 station screenprinting carousel

Signed 1/1

 

Battle of the Bulge, 101st Airborne Division & the Siege of Bastogne

The Ardennes Offensive (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive launched towards the end of World War II through the forested Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium. Germany's planned goal for these operations was to split the British and American Allied line in half, capturing Antwerp, Belgium in the process, and then proceeding to encircle and destroy the entire British 21st Army Group and all 12th U.S. Army Group units north of the German advance, forcing the Western Allies to negotiate a peace treaty in the Axis Powers' favor as a result.

The 101st Airborne Division faced the elite of the German military which included such units as 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, Führerbegleitbrigade, 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, and the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen.[30] The 506th retook Noville on 15 January and Rachamps the next day. The 502nd reinforced the 327th, and the two regiments captured Bourcy on 17 January, pushing the Germans back to their point of advance on the day the division had arrived in Bastogne. The next day the 101st Airborne Division was relieved.