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Why was it so important for the American army to cut the Cotentin Peninsula ? To isolate the German forces of Cherbourg giving them no chance to escape!
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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, Matt Urban, Medal of Honor

For more than two centuries the United States Marine Corps have fought all around the world for freedom. It’s heart, it’s history, the Marine Corps reinforced it during the Second World War. Brotherhood, courage,
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Topics: World War 2, World War One, WWII Iceland

During the second half of the XIX century, the heads of state and government traveled frequently on the railways, the fastest means of transportation at the time, aboard luxurious wagons turned into living rooms,
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Topics: UNESCO World Heritage, Gastronomy and cuisine, WWI Rear Admiral George Hope, WWI the Ottoman Empire, WWI Marshal Philippe Petain, WWI General Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff, WWI President Georges Clemenceau, WWI The Fourteen Points, WWI the Zimmermann telegram, WWI General Robert Georges Nivelle, WWI The Great War, World War I The Great War, WWI Private George Lawrence Price, WWI President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, WWI The Trench Warfare, West Point, WWI Alsace-Lorraine, WWI Private First-Class Augustin Trébuchon, WWI Treaty of Sèvres with Ottoman Empire in 1920, WWI Gallipoli peninsula campaign, World War I Battle of Verdun, WWI Battle of the Somme, WWI Treaty of Versailles with Germany in 1919, WWI Treaty of Trianon with Hungary in 1920, WWI General John Pershing, WWI Captain Wilfred Percy Nevill, WWI Treaty of Neuilly with Bulgaria in 1920, WWI Compiègne, WWII Führersonderzug Amerika, WWI Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, WWI General Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke, WWI King Albert I, WWI Compiegne, WWI Field Marshal Douglas Haig, WWI Prime Minister David Lloyd George, WWI Alfred Graf von Oberndorff - Germany, WWI Treaty of Saint-Germain with Austria in 1919, WWI General von Schlieffen, Detlof von Winterfeldt, WWI Wilhelm II, WWI Alliance: Germany, Archduke of Austria, Matthias Erzberger, Emperor of Germany & Prussia, WWI Commander-in-Chief, WWI Franz Ferdinand, Marshall Ferdinand Foch, Austria-Hungary, WWI Armistice of November 11th, WWI General Imperial Army, Rosslyn Wemyss, Italy, WWI Major-General Allied Armies, WWI Commander-in-Chief Royal Navy, Maxime Weygand, WWI Triple Entente: France, Ernst Vanselow, WWI Officer of the Imperial Navy, WWI Head of the delegation, 1918, Russia & England

The 9th Infantry Division commanded by the Major General Manton S. Eddy came ashore on the 10th of June 1944 at Utah Beach, precisely in the sector codenamed “Tare Green”. It’s mission? Cut the Cotentin Peninsula and
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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII 4th Infantry Division, WWII 9th Infantry Division, WWII 39th Infantry Regiment, WWII 70th Tank Battalion, USA, Infantry, Third Reich, France, Anytime, Bar Nothing!, Anywhere, WWII Anything, WWII 39th Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel Harry Flint, Normandy

These are sites off the beaten tracks of tourists that I enjoy with my wife and son and my family in general…the list of course is not exhaustive! To say the least we keep some for ourselves....
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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, Nazi 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, WWII 82nd Infantry Division, USA, Third Reich, France, LCVP Higgins barge, Rangers, Normandy, Normandy Barfleur mussels

In the northwest of Brest, precisely at the South of the cities of Guilers and Bohars, was a group of strongpoints. Built in the villages of Kerognan, Loguillo and Le Moulin du Beuzit, they formed a triangular line of
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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 29th Infantry Division, World War Two, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII 8th Infantry Division, Infantry, Third Reich, France, Brest Kerognan guns, Brittany

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