In December 1944, a battle began in the densely forested Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. It started with a surprise counteroffensive launched by Nazi Germany at the Allied ...

CENDRON, Belgium — Technician fifth grade Alfonso Coppola was one of the first American troops to enter Belgium during World War II to free it from Nazi occupation. On Monday, Philip and Loretta ...

Editor's Note: The following story is a part of USAG Benelux’s “Honoring our Legacy” series in which we tell stories of World War I, World War II, the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty ...

WHEN the Belgian government returned to Brussels on September 8, 1944, from its wartime stand in London, it found a country prostrated by the ravages of war. Nazi controls had reduced the economy to a ...

There is a certain insincerity—gloomy, outrageous, and almost absurd—in the way Belgium approaches its role in history. This is, after all, a country that preaches human rights while carrying in its ...

The laces made in Belgium during World War One are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...