Frank Douglas and Bob Homan were desperately sick, vomiting their Christmas meals. Victor Fuchs was in a foxhole, directing artillery fire and thinking of his mother.
Artillery shells banging on both sides.
The screams and everything else that goes on. In 1944, the four Rock County men and many others from this area were fighting the Battle of the Bulge in the wooded hills of Belgium's Ardennes region. The eventual Allied victory doomed Nazi Germany to defeat and unconditional surrender. In 1997, the veterans recalled their experiences for The Janesville Gazette. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 1944, the battle was far from resolved.