McAuliffe Answers German Demand: Nuts!
German forces encircled the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne and demanded unconditional surrender during the Battle of the Bulge. Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe sent back the one-word reply "Nuts!"—a defiant rejection that rallied the besieged garrison until Patton's Third Army broke through four days later.
December 22, 1944
82 years ago
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