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“We gamble now ----- we cannot fail”.These words were said by Field Marshal Von Rundstedt before to launch his famous offensive code named “Wacht am Rhein” (Watch on the Rhine in English) on December 17th, 1944, named
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Late November 1944, the 79th Infantry Division had pushed deeper in Alsace County and was now not far away from the town of Haguenau, symbolically a crossroad between France and Germany. The Saverne Gap battle was
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During the Saverne Gap battle it was the entire 79th Infantry Division which had been used, all of the elements without any exceptions. Indeed, while the 314th Infantry Regiment was fighting for villages of Hameau
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Topics: WWII 79th Infantry Division, Medal of Honor recipient, Medal of Honor, France, Alsace

Time to rest for the 1st Battalion of the 314th Infantry Regiment after the Battle of Barbas was short leave, indeed once it moved forward to an assembly area at Halloville, at noon on the same day, which was November
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Before the war, Barbas, a village of perhaps seventy-five houses, huddled rather closely together was a very quiet village in the French countryside. It is on low ground between two fairly steep hills. A small stream,
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August 21st, 1944, after one-hundred days of heavy fighting the Normandy Campaign ends and the Rat Race began. By that time while the German Army was escaping toward the East trying to find shelter behind the border, in
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Normandy, nowadays everyone knows Normandy for the D-Day landing on June 6th, 1944. Nevertheless, its history is not only about this day. It is also rich in heritage with many picturesque, adorable villages and
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Topics: Normandy, Normandy most beautiful villages

On December 16th, 1944, German army launched its counterattack also known as “Von Rundstedt counterattack” in the Bulge with the purpose to cut the American Army in Belgium by reaching the coastal town of Antwerpen.
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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII Belgium Battle of the Bulge, WWII 3rd Armored Division, WWII Belgium Task Force Hogan

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