On 17 December 1944 , members of Battery B , 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion were traveling from Aachen , Germany to the Ardennes in Belgium when 120 of them were captured by Joachim Peiper 's 1st SS Panzer Division at Baugnez , lined up in a nearby field and mowed down with machine gun fire in what became known as the Malmedy massacre
Malmedy massacre
Malmedy massacre
285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion