LYNN – When Adolph Hitler launched a massive, last-ditch attack 70 years ago to keep Allied armies out of Germany, three brothers from Lynn?s former Brickyard neighborhood were among the Americans doing the fighting in freezing weather.George, Charles and Theodore Banos grew up on now-extinct Bedford Street and marched off to war in time for the three of them to be fighting in Europe in separate Army units when the Germans sprang their surprise attack into Belgium shortly before Christmas 1944.The Nazis rolled back American troops, capturing and killing GIs, until low fuel supplies, improving weather and rock-hard resistance by paratroopers turned the tide against Hitler and ruined his last gamble against inevitable defeat.Although they served in separate Army units, the Banos brothers all fought in the theater of military operations history books refer to as the Battle of the Bulge. When they met up in Allied-occupied Germany in 1945, the Banos brothers had not seen one another for four years.George Banos, a Lynn real estate agent and son of Charles Banos, treasures the collection of black-and-white photographs, maps and war memorabilia chronicling his father?s and his uncles? service.?My father recalled waking up in the morning and seeing soldiers frozen in foxholes,” he said.Charles Banos died in 2001, George Banos died in 1994, and brother Theodore in 1989, but the younger George Banos said the three talked occasionally over the years about their winter war experiences.?My father told me a lot of guys froze to death. You were lucky if you found a burned-out building or a farmhouse,” Banos said.He recalled how his father described how soldiers who argued over religious differences during their spare time became equals under intense German artillery shelling.?A bunch of guys would take shelter in a bombed-out church with every different denomination praying,” he said.Before the war ended, the Banos brothers encountered concentration camps and helped German refugee children. Charles Banos became a postal clerk after the war; George Banos sold cars and insurance; and Theodore Banos stayed in the Army, specializing in military intelligence.?One Christmas, I saw my father looking like he was in a fog. I asked him, ?What?s going on?? He said, ?Here I am with my kids and I?m thinking of the Bulge. All I can remember is the cold,?” George Banos recalled.