When the German Ardennes offensive tore open the American line in December 1944, the 101st Airborne was resting in reserve near Reims. On 18 December they were loaded into open trucks and driven through a freezing night toward a Belgian road junction called Bastogne, where seven highways met — many men arriving short of ammunition, overcoats, and winter boots. They dug in, were surrounded within days, and held. When a German officer demanded their surrender, acting commander McAuliffe answered "Nuts!" The Screaming Eagles knew long marches well by then, with Normandy's hedgerows and the length of Hell's Highway in Holland already behind them.

The set pairs two troopers mid-stride: one in a heavy overcoat against the winter, his M1 rifle slung, the other in field gear with helmet netting and combat equipment secured for the road. Mounted on separate groundwork bases, they anchor a Bastogne winter-roadway diorama. Fall them in under their most famous officer, Capt. Dick Winters, set the scene with Welcome to Bastogne, and add the 101st Airborne Medic, Winter 1944–45 to complete a column moving up in the cold.

W. Britain model 25306. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set on separate sculpted groundwork bases. Boxed.