U.S. Army WW II Field Hospital Nurse Lt. Katherine Nolan (ret.) Recounted the Hardships of the Battle of the Bulge and Caring for the Wounded [Image 2 of 2]

An undated photograph of U.S. Army paratroopers of Company A 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division, pulling a crude sled in the snow to bring in a fellow soldier for medical aid at Born, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge from Dec. 16, 1944, to Jan. 25, 1945. The story of the battle gets an eyewitness accounting from an Army field hospital nurse, Lt. Katherine Nolan. The desperate attempt by the Germans to break the Allies’ advance across Europe was the costliest American battle in history, with more than 82,400 killed, wounded, and captured in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium and Luxembourg. (Photo courtesy of the Morton Norris Katz Collection, Veterans History Project, Library of Congress)

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Katherine Nolan, a frontline nurse with the Army’s 53rd Field Hospital in Europe in WW II, gives an eyewitness account of her recollections of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium and Luxembourg between Dec. 16, 1944, and Jan. 25, 1945. The prolonged winter battle marked the Germans desperate attempt to hold back the Allied advances across Europe.