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Forts Montbarey and Keranroux were built at the end of the XVIII century to make Brest an impregnable fortress reinforced by the Germans in 1940. During the last days of the campaign of Brest the Germans used the Forts
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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 175th Infantry Regiment, WWII 29th Infantry Division, WWII 116th Infantry Regiment, World War Two, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, Fort Keranroux, Infantry, Third Reich, France, Staff Sergeant Sherwood H. Hallman, Brittany, Medal of Honor

Lieutenant Colonel Paul. Krznarich, Division G-2, told VIII Corps at 13:35 hours: “We are on it, but so are the Jerries”. Brittany was already a theater of war as of June 6th, 1944, when French soldiers of the Special
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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 175th Infantry Regiment, WWII 29th Infantry Division, WWII 116th Infantry Regiment, World War Two, Fort Keranroux, Infantry, Third Reich, France, Brittany

Task Force “C” was conceived by Major General Charles Harrison Corlett, XIX Corps Commander and Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt, General of the 29th Infantry Division.
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Topics: World War 2, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 175th Infantry Regiment, WWII 29th Rangers Battalion, WWII 29th Infantry Division, WWII 116th Infantry Regiment, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, USA, Infantry, France, Normandy

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