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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Topics:
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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Topics:
WWII,
71st Infantry Division,
Red Circle Division,
71st Infantry Division WWII,
5th Infantry Regiment WWII,
66th Infantry Regiment WWII,
14th Infantry Regiment WWII
After a 7-hours walk through the swamps behind Utah Beach on June 6th , the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division reached finally “Road S9” also known as “Causeway 4” then spent the
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Topics:
WWII 4th Infantry Division,
France, Normandy, Crisbecq Battery,
Normandy,
ww2,
4th Infantry Division,
Utah beach
Located in the Manche County, the purpose of Utah Beach was to take Cherbourg and its harbor in deep-water. That was the job of the VII Corps under the command of General Joseph Collins. But before to take Cherbourg, a
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Topics:
4th Infantry Division,
Utah beach,
Operation Neptune
During the mission of the 2nd Armored Division which was to prevent the Germans to reestablish a line of defense after the Saint-Lô breakthrough, “C” Company of the 702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion was attached to the
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During the closing of the Roncey Pocket, the 82nd Reconnaissance Battalion had to reconnoiter the Combat Command “B” road of advance and then to cover the flanks and to go all the way to the Sienne River to take the
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