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29th Infantry Division ''OK Let's Go''

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 175th Infantry Regiment, WWII 29th Rangers Battalion, WWII 1st US Army Assault Training Center, WWII 29th Infantry Division, WWII 116th Infantry Regiment, England, Slapton Sands, RMS Queen Mary, Saunton Sands Beach

29th Infantry Division D-Day objective, take down Charlie - Dog sector

"Advance with the wire cutters" Lieutenant Edward Tidrick's final words Company "A" of the 116th Infantry Regiment

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall

Wolf Lair - W2 known also as the Führerhauptquartiere Wolfsschlucht 2

Built between 1942 and 1944, East of the city of Soissons (France), the Wolf Lair - W2 known as the "Führerhauptquartiere Wolfsschlucht 2" was the biggest Third Reich Headquarters ever built of the Second World War!

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Topics: World War 2

The first men on d-day were the french S.A.S.

“If someone had told us that we were about to die, no one would have believed him, we were so confident, we were like supermen” Jack Sibard

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Das Reich: The Firemen of the Frontline

Created in 1925 the Schutzstaffel became a huge militia to serve the Nazi party, a real state in the state. Those fighting divisions had the nickname of “firemen of the frontline”. The 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich"

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Against our will

“ I left Alsace the 27th of June 1944….I was 17 years old and I believed I would never come back” Marcel Grob 11 October 2009 From June 1942 until the end of the war one hundred thousand Alsatians and thirty thousand

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D-DAY TESTIMONIALS FROM LOCALS OF SAINT MARIE DU MONT

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division

BLOODY GULCH

On June 13th 1944, 7 days after the D-day landings in Normandy, a hard battle known still today as “the battle of Bloody Gulch” Hill 30 took place in the little village of Méautis, at the Donville Manor.

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HOW CARENTAN BECAME THE BRIDGEHEAD BETWEEN OMAHA AND UTAH BEACH

Carentan, a charming little town, due to its strategic position, was thru different historical conflicts, a very contested place (written by a trainee of Normandy American Heroes!)

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Topics: World War 2