The Marine Band musicians dropped their instruments and saved the day for a lot of soldiers getting their asses kicked at the Bulge.
I hate to blow your Marine bubble, but there were no Marines or Marine Bands in the Ardennes Forest for the Battle of the Bulge in WWII.
Marine band in Europe at the “Battle of the Bulge”?
What Marines were in Europe other then the few on shipboard ?
I think it was a Marine brigade/battalion that took over Iceland garrison duty from the British in late 1940 or early 1941. (We weren’t officially in the war yet!) If I remember that right that’s the only Marine activity of any kind in Europe during WWII.