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79th Infantry Division - Cherbourg Campaign: Taking Fort du Roule

The 79th Infantry Division as the other US Infantry Divisions engaged three Infantry Regiments into battle. You have already discovered the story of the 313th Infantry Regiment during the Cherbourg Campaign, now let’s

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, Infantry

Bastogne has had a long tradition of giving out nuts!

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division, World War Two, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, Green Hell, Hürtgen Forest

WWII Dartmouth Golf Club, Agatha Christie, Blackpool & Slapton Sands!

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division, WWII 29th Infantry Division, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, 1st Infantry Division, WWII, 5th Rangers Battalion, Gastronomy and cuisine, WWII 5th Rangers Battalion, WWII Golf, England, US Coast Guards, Slapton Sands, USA, Infantry, Rangers

Addendum 297th Engineer Battalion - PFC Louis Stevens, first casualty

"Man in front of the man behind the gun"

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 1st US Army Assault Training Center, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, WWII General Simon Bolivar Buckner Junior

John Canepa and the 297th Engineer Battalion

"Man in front of the man behind the gun"

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D-Day to August 1, 1944, First U.S. Army learned 13 tactical lessons!

The result of the operations of the First U.S. Army during the period covered by Normandy American Heroes new E-book / Hardcover: - First United States Army Cross Channel Attack Operations (October 1943 – August 1944)

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 175th Infantry Regiment, WWII 1st US Army Assault Training Center, WWII 29th Infantry Division, WWII 116th Infantry Regiment, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII Paratroopers, WWII 4th Infantry Division, WWII 22nd Infantry Regiment, WWII 8th Infantry Regiment, WWII 12th Infantry Regiment, Matt Urban, England, US Coast Guards, Slapton Sands, USA, LST Landing Ship Tanks, Croyde Cliffs, Infantry, France, US Navy, Woolacombe Beach, Saint-Germain-de-Varreville, WWII England, MOH recipient, Rangers, Lieutenant Colonel Leon Vance, Saunton Sands Beach, Medal of Honor, Normandy

Village of Raffoville in the swamps taken by the 4th Infantry Division

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

26th Field Artillery Battalion Courage and Action in Operation Lüttich

During the early days of the month of August 1944, the 9th Infantry Division was fighting southeast toward the village of Saint-Pois (D-33 / D-39) with only two of its regiments. The 47th Infantry Regiment and the 60th

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII 4th Infantry Division, WWII, 9th Infantry Division, 39th Infantry Regiment, Operation Wacht am Rhein, 47th Infantry Regiment, 60th Infantry Regiment, WWII General Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, WWII Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber, WWII 3rd US Army, WWII 26th Field Artillery Battalion, Infantry

Operation Cobra, the 9th Infantry Division Breakthrough into Normandy

More than one month and a half after D-Day, the American troops succeeded to create and to maintain a bridgehead in Normandy, which was the first step of their undertaking.

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII 4th Infantry Division, Saint Lo, WWII, 9th Infantry Division, 39th Infantry Regiment, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, B-26 Martin Marauder, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-51 Mustang, Ninth Air Force, Eighth Air Force, USAAF, Field Marshal Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel, Operation Cobra, Brittany American Cemetery, 47th Infantry Regiment, 60th Infantry Regiment, WWII General Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, WWII Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair, Matt Urban, Infantry, Medal of Honor

Old Reliables taking Cherbourg from the West of the Cotentin Peninsula

While the 4th Infantry Division was fighting at the East of Cherbourg, the 79th Infantry Division being in the center, the 9th Infantry Division arrived by the West of the city.

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII 4th Infantry Division, Infantry