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Check your history - the only U.S. troops fighting in Belgium in 1942 were over it in USAAF aircraft. We didn't get to Belgium on land until 1944.

Reports I've seen on the mini-series are that it is quite accurate, and Ambrose and crew were heavily involved. It looks really promising, hope my friend comes through with the tape. I'm sure I'll get the DVD's when they come out.

Check your history.

Check my post I said that Hanks said that - any US troops fighting in Belgium in 1942 would have to be tough and they would have been very lonely. D-Day was 6/6/44, in 1942 Belgium was chock full o' Germans.

I don't know very much about the Battle of the Bulge. But when my Dad was dying, he dictated a little memoir. He states that on Christmas eve of 1944 his squad company E of the 75th Infantry Division participated in what was to be the first attack of any portion of the 290th Regimen. Their job was to take a town occupied by the Germans in some corner of Belgium. Most of the men ended up shell shocked after one night in the forest. My dad survived because he was the radio man and since the walkie-talkie didn't work (big surprise), he volunteered to return to the Major at Base camp for help. My Dad explained something to me when I was little. He said, "I was never a hero, I was only doing my job." And he meant it, for he was just about the last person possible to be recruited at the end of the war, being 4F with glasses.