Battle of the Bulge Monument Clervaux

Clervaux, LU

The Battle of the Bulge Monument at Clervaux commemorates the American soldiers of the **28th Infantry Division** — the 'Keystone Division' — who fought and died defending this town and the surrounding Ardennes in December 1944. The 28th Division bore the brunt of the initial German onslaught in the southern Ardennes, spread impossibly thin along a 35km front. Its 110th Infantry Regiment at Clervaux was virtually destroyed holding road junctions and towns while German divisions swept around and through them. Though the division was shattered as a fighting force, its stubborn resistance in countless small actions — at Clervaux, **Hosingen**, **Consthum**, and dozens of unnamed crossroads — delayed the German advance by precious hours and days that allowed the defence of Bastogne to be organised. The 28th Division was reconstituted and returned to action in time for the Allied advance into Germany. The monument at Clervaux recognises a sacrifice that was essential to the ultimate defeat of the German offensive, even though the division itself could not survive intact.