Allamakee County Veterans Museum to host video interview of Donald Rubendall as part of Battle of the Bulge presentation
Battle of the Bulge 80th anniversary ... Donald Rubendall of Allamakee County is pictured above receiving battlefield commission as Lieutenant. A recorded interview with Rubendall will be part of the program presented at the Allamakee County Veterans Museum in Waukon Saturday, December 14 and Monday, December 16 in honor of the 80th anniversary of WWII’s Battle of the Bulge. Submitted photo.
Saturday, December 14, at 10 a.m., the Allamakee County Veterans Museum will present a program commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge during World War II at its museum located at 105 Allamakee Street in Waukon. The program will also be repeated Monday, December 16 at 10 a.m. at the museum.
The German Army’s attack on the Allied front lines in Belgium and Luxembourg in the Ardennes Forest through Bastogne and St. Vith was intended to seize the port of Antwerp in a last ditch effort to stop the Allied attack on the German homeland from the west. The Battle of the Bulge began December 16, 1944.
This program will focus on the part of the U.S. Army’s 14th Cavalry Group, who were greatly outnumbered by Panzer troops that attacked under cover of bad winter weather which grounded Allied air support. The presentation is based in part on a recorded interview by Maury Gallagher with Donald Rubendall of Allamakee County, who was a Platoon Sergeant in the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron assigned to the 14th Cavalry, along with video accounts of the events.
The public is invited to attend. There is no admission or membership charge. The museum facility is handicapped accessible.
