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71st Infantry Division - Fire and Movement: Taking of Bayreuth and Beyond

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 - Fire and Movement: Rhine to Bayreuth

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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71st Infantry Division - Fire and Movement: Crossing of the Rhine River

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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71st Infantry Division - From Camp Old Gold to the Skyline Drive

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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