The 11th Armored Division advances. Burnett Miller of Sacramento served in this company and found himself involved in the Battle of the Bulge.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-207057)

American infantrymen advance along a snow-covered road during the Ardennes campaign. 1945.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-327687)

Infantrymen of the 3rd Armored Division run for cover in the front line town of Mont-Le Ban, Belgium. January 15, 1945.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-198707-S (208-AA-8H-2))

A US soldier advances past a burning house in Lombre, north of the highway between Houffalize and St. Vith in the Ardennes, Belgium. February 9, 1945

Source: National Archives (208-AA-8H-5 (EA 50438))

German soldiers advance during the Nazi counteroffensive that would come to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. December 1944.

Source: National Archives (208-AA-202B-4)

Largest land battle on the Western Front during World War II and the largest engagement ever fought by the U.S. Army. In early December 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned major offensives in the northern and southern sectors of the Western Front. To ensure sufficient power for . . .

In Belgium, an exposed member of the 82nd Airborne Division scrambles for cover. December 24, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-197861)

Two dead American soldiers at a crossroads in Belgium. December 1944.

Source: National Archives (WC-1339)

Burnett Miller was born on September 2, 1923 in Sacramento. His father ran a successful lumber business. Miller was a sophomore in ROTC at Santa Clara College when the war began. In May of 1943, he was called to active duty and after basic training entered the Army Specialized Training . . .

Sacramento's Burnett Miller takes a break from the fighting in Europe. Miller participated in the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

Source: Burnett Miller

Burnett Miller reads a letter he wrote to his mom while he was overseas.

Samples of letters home written by Burnett Miller

Men had to dig foxholes in the frozen ground at the Battle of the Bulge.

As a delivery boy for The Sacramento Bee, Burt Wilson followed the war through the maps printed on the front page. He talks about the Battle of the Bulge

Chow is served to American infantrymen on their way to La Roche, Belgium. January 13, 1945.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-198849)

In Belgium, a German soldier examines a map during the Battle of the Bulge, December 17, 1944.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-341517)

During the Battle of the Bulge, Norman Greenslate sits with his rifle in hand and smiles despite the cold snow. He sent this picture home to his future wife, Dolores Silva.

Source: Dolores Greenslate

Dwain Luce was born April 25 1916, and grew up in Mobile. His father was in the lumber business. Luce graduated from high school in l934 and from Auburn in l938, with a reserve commission. After graduation he went to work at his family's cannery business in Mississippi. On December . . .

Emily Lewis was born in Paducah, Kentucky on April 5th, 1920, and grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1924. She graduated from nursing school in 1941 and after Pearl Harbor, enlisted in the armed forces. She was called to duty in June of 1942, and was initially sent to . . .

American infantrymen reload thier rifles from a perch atop a dilapidated roof in Beffe, Belgium. January 7, 1945.

Source: National Archives (111-SC-198884)