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The twin brothers of the 297th engineer combat battalion

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Letter from the past - Tribéhou in Normandy, PFC Anthony C. Ippolito

Once our missions to clear roads at Cherbourg were completed on the 27th and 28th of June 1944, we were sent back to Saint-Joseph and Fresville to rest after the heavy fightings to take control of "Fortress" Cherbourg.

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII 297th Engineer Battalion The Jack Rabbits

The geese laid golden eggs but never cackled at Station X...why?

On D-Day the Allied troops knew exactly where the German defenses were, which divisions were deployed, what size gun battery they were to affront on the coastline and how each regiment was going to defeat them.

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two

Private First Class Weldon E. McClane, memories of WWII in Normandy

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII, Cotentin Peninsula, WWII 297th Engineer Battalion The Jack Rabbits

Private First-Class Weldon E. McClane - WIA at Gavray-sur-Sienne

Nowadays to acquire knowledge about a specific subject, we have at our disposal a multitude of resources as books, internet websites, articles and more. But sometimes when these resources talk about a specific subject

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Topics: World War 2, WWII, Cotentin Peninsula, WWII 297th Engineer Battalion The Jack Rabbits

Medal of Honor of Private First Class Frederick Murphy - 19 March 1945

Frederick C. Murphy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 27, 1918, and lived in nearby Quincy.

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, The West Wall, Siegfried Line

Bastogne has had a long tradition of giving out nuts!

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division, World War Two, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, Green Hell, Hürtgen Forest

Wacht am Rhein Operation Grief, what’s the name of Mickey Mouse’s dog?

The most important role of Operation Wacht am Rhein falls on the shoulders of the 6th Panzer Army under the orders of Sepp Dietrich, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (Supreme Group Leader) and Generaloberst (uppermost General)

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS

Operation Watch am Rhein, the Schutzstaffel troops lead the offensive!

Premise to Operation Wacht am Rhein

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, Green Hell, Heinrich Luitpold Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS, Hürtgen Forest

First warning signs of the Battle of the Bulge, the Hürtgen forest

At 0530 hours on December 16th, 1944 the final counterattack of the German army took place in the Ardennes forest.

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, Green Hell, Infantry, Hürtgen Forest, The West Wall, Siegfried Line

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World war two, normandy and more

The twin brothers of the 297th engineer combat battalion

Letter from the past - Tribéhou in Normandy, PFC Anthony C. Ippolito

The geese laid golden eggs but never cackled at Station X...why?

Private First Class Weldon E. McClane, memories of WWII in Normandy

Private First-Class Weldon E. McClane - WIA at Gavray-sur-Sienne

Medal of Honor of Private First Class Frederick Murphy - 19 March 1945

Bastogne has had a long tradition of giving out nuts!

Wacht am Rhein Operation Grief, what’s the name of Mickey Mouse’s dog?

Operation Watch am Rhein, the Schutzstaffel troops lead the offensive!

First warning signs of the Battle of the Bulge, the Hürtgen forest

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