On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, over 80 American POWs were brutally executed by Kampfgruppe Peiper, an SS Panzer unit, in what became known as the Malmedy Massacre.

where their company held off a German panzer unit advance at great cost, and then helped push the enemy all the way to the Mediterranean. The Ehlers next fought in Sicily, and were subsequently ...