Battlefield Tour Foy Foxholes - 101st Airborne Battlefield and Monument.

The Fake Foxholes of Le Bois Jacques - 101st Airborne Monument

History:
Foy was a small village occupied by the Germans in
the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge.
It's just 4 kilometers to the north of Bastogne on the road to Houffalize.

The American 101st Airborne Division held the Bois Jacques or Jacques Woods,
up a slight rise outside Foy.
The battle saw Foy change hands four times,
with the Americans ultimately recapturing the town from the Germans.

On 20 December 1944, the Germans took the town
of Foy from 1st Battalion, US 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
US 101st Airborne Division, suffering heavy losses in the
process 500-1,000 German troops and 30 tanks were lost,
while 199 US soldiers and 13 officers were lost.

The American paratroopers, including Easy Company,
counterattacked on 9 January 1945 with assistance from artillery,
and they repelled a counterattack
at 4:15 AM on 14 January 1945. The Germans later sent in 14 tanks
and a whole battalion to retake the town,
and they succeeded. However, the Americans counterattacked at 9:30 AM,
and they suffered significant losses
due to a lack of cover in the open and snowy fields and
during the house-to-house fighting.

Today:

Stephen Ambrose's Band of Brothers
describes how its Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry
Regiment led the assault to capture the town in January, 1945.
The series would make the site become popular under tourists
slowly turning the place into a fake tourist-trap.

Many foxholes can still be found in Jack's Woods,
but most of them are fake especially the once that
are now behind a gate.

To make the side feel even more cheap, since 2022
you have to pay to see the side, which makes it feel dirty.
You can get these tickets at the Bastogne war museum.

But I would recommend you don't pay for this site
and just walk into the forest and you will get
more of a genuine experience.

The defense many people seem to give is that the
pay-gate is there to protect the site, but if this is the case
why are they still cutting down trees and making fake foxholes,
doing this has destroyed the site many times over, and over again.

The site is also a 'treefarm' which means the tree will get harvested every 40 to 50 years, and this tree farm was harvested in the 1960s. making the survival of the original foxholes impossible.

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■ Information obtained from several sites.
■ Wikipedia
■ tanks-encyclopedia
■ the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Panzers
■ preservedtanks
■ pantser.net
■ the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France

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