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79th Infantry Division - Operation Northwind: Calm before the Storm

“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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79th Infantry Division: Saverne Gap - Wintershausen then Ohlungen

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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79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Captain Raymond Harvey

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

79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Bois du Sablon an Obstacle

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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79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Objective Barbas and Beyond.

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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79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Fighting for Montigny

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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War in Ukraine today, the Elbe River linkup April 25, 1945 yesterday!

The Russian/Ukrainian – American Linkup 25 April 1945!

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII 69th Infantry Division, Elbe River Linkup

Seven adorable villages in Normandy, France.

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

83rd Reconnaissance Battalion, A Company, Task Force Hogan

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, Operation Wacht am Rhein, WWII Belgium Battle of the Bulge, WWII Belgium Task Force Hogan, WWII 83rd Reconnaissance Battalion, WWII Third Armored Division

Task Force Hogan: Escape through the Battle of the Bulge

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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79th Infantry Division - Operation Northwind: Calm before the Storm

79th Infantry Division: Saverne Gap - Wintershausen then Ohlungen

79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Captain Raymond Harvey

79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Bois du Sablon an Obstacle

79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Objective Barbas and Beyond.

79th Infantry Division - Saverne Gap: Fighting for Montigny

War in Ukraine today, the Elbe River linkup April 25, 1945 yesterday!

Seven adorable villages in Normandy, France.

83rd Reconnaissance Battalion, A Company, Task Force Hogan

Task Force Hogan: Escape through the Battle of the Bulge

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