On the night of June 5th to June 6th, 1944, Operation Neptune was on. The VII Corps commanded by General Joe Collins was assigned to Utah Beach. Contrary to Omaha Beach, the landing on Utah was not only on the sand but
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WWII 101st Airborne Division,
Utah beach
During the night of 5th to 6th June 1944, the landing plan known as operation “Neptune” was initiated. This landing on the Normandy coast took place not only by sea, but also by air. Airborne troops played a crucial
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WWII 101st Airborne Division,
Utah beach,
France, Normandy
The division had just completed the reduction of Bayreuth on April 15th 1945. Prior to that time and after a brief, uneventful attachment to the 7th US Army it came under the operational control of XII Corps and crossed
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On April 10th movement by the 5th Infantry Regiment began toward an assembly area in the neighbourhood of Herbartsdorf. By the morning of the next day arrangements had been completed for an attack on the city of Coburg
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71st Infantry Division,
71st Infantry Division WWII
Following the drive to the Rhine the division was assigned to the 3rd Army on March 29th. Advance units of the 3rd Army having made the original river crossing a few days earlier, the 71st Infantry Division moved over
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Germany,
71st Infantry Division,
71st Infantry Division WWII
Once the relieve of the 100th Infantry Division was almost completed, the "Red Circle" maintained its defensive positions. Activity was confined to patrolling. Reconnaissance groups probed enemy positions and located
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Germany,
Siegfried Line,
71st Infantry Division,
71st Infantry Division WWII,
Rhine River
Toward the end of the stay at Camp Old Gold, General Eisenhower paid a brief visit to the division, and on March 6 the regiments boarded the disreputable old "40 and 8" cars at Yerville for the trip out. Bails of straw
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ww2,
71st Infantry Division,
71st Infantry Division WWII,
Skyline Drive
Activated on July 15th 1943 at Camp Carson, Colorado, its insignia appears as a blue “71” on a white circular background which is trimmed in red.
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WWII,
71st Infantry Division,
Red Circle Division,
71st Infantry Division WWII,
5th Infantry Regiment WWII,
66th Infantry Regiment WWII,
14th Infantry Regiment WWII
“Places of memory, places of suffering and violence, confront us with the future as much as with the past”.
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Nazi 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich,
France, Limousin, Oradour-sur-Glane massacre,
France, civilian Robert Hébras,
ww2
The Sotteville château The Sotteville Château Located 10.6 miles from Cherbourg, and 61.5 miles from Bayeux, the Sotteville château is a beautiful Norman building, nestled on the outskirts of the small village of
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WWII,
Sotteville Château,
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
France, Normandy, Sotteville
