Battle of the Bulge veterans honored at WWII Memorial ceremony in Washington

Two Battle of the Bulge veterans, officials and supporters gathered Monday at the World War II Memorial’s Circle of Remembrance in Washington to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the decisive battle. The veterans, retired Army Senior Master Sgt. Harry Miller, 96, and retired Army Col. Frank Cohn, 99, were honored with laying a wreath at the Atlantic arch of the memorial.

In 1944, Miller, a tank crewman, arrived in Belgium, east of where the Battle of the Bulge, one of World War II’s most famous battles, soon would be waged near the border of Germany. It was one of the largest and bloodiest fights of the war.

Miller and Cohn are among the last surviving soldiers from the battle, which was Germany’s final offensive on the war’s western front, a battle fought in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg.