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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

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 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

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