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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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Topics: ww2, 71st Infantry Division, 71st Infantry Division WWII, Skyline Drive

Oradour-sur-Glane, memories of a martyred village

“Places of memory, places of suffering and violence, confront us with the future as much as with the past”.

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Topics: Nazi 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, France, Limousin, Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, France, civilian Robert Hébras, ww2

4th Infantry Division - Operation Neptune: 210mm guns of Crisbecq

After a 7-hours walk through the swamps behind Utah Beach on June 6th , the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division reached finally “Road S9” also known as “Causeway 4” then spent the

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Topics: WWII 4th Infantry Division, France, Normandy, Crisbecq Battery, Normandy, ww2, 4th Infantry Division, Utah beach

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

Oradour-sur-Glane, memories of a martyred village

4th Infantry Division - Operation Neptune: 210mm guns of Crisbecq

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