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Lieutenant Colonel Erasmus H. Strickland: “The way those people were dug in, the only way we could do anything to them was to get a direct hit on each individual hole. But we couldn’t see them on that trail while they
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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII 4th Infantry Division, WWII 22nd Infantry Regiment, WWII 8th Infantry Regiment, WWII 12th Infantry Regiment, Infantry

While the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division was attacking Crisbecq battery on the 7th of June 1944, the 2nd Battalion was fighting to take Azeville battery.
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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII 4th Infantry Division, WWII 22nd Infantry Regiment, Normandy Azeville German Battery, Infantry, France, Normandy Azeville Battery, US Navy, Hawaii, Normandy

By night fall on June 6th, 1944 the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division which had landed at Utah beach on D-Day, spent the night in the vicinity of Saint-Germain-de-Varreville.
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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 1st US Army, WWII 4th Infantry Division, WWII 22nd Infantry Regiment, Infantry, France, Normandy Azeville Battery, US Navy, Saint-Germain-de-Varreville, Loire, Château de Fontenay, Normandy

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