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79th Infantry Division - Cherboug Campaign: Eyes and Ears

It was on the 1st of June 1944 when the 79th Reconnaissance Troop left Marbury Hall Tent Camp N°2 in England to “Galloping Bottom” in preparation for the great invasion.

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, WWII 79th Infantry Division, France, Normandy, Cherbourg, LST Landing Ship Tanks, Infantry

79th Infantry Division - Cherbourg Campaign: A harbor in deep water

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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

79th Infantry Division - Cherbourg Campaign: Seize the Harbor

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Topics: World War 2, WWII 101st Airborne Division, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, Infantry

The geese laid golden eggs but never cackled at Station X...why?

On D-Day the Allied troops knew exactly where the German defenses were, which divisions were deployed, what size gun battery they were to affront on the coastline and how each regiment was going to defeat them.

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two

First warning signs of the Battle of the Bulge, the Hürtgen forest

At 0530 hours on December 16th, 1944 the final counterattack of the German army took place in the Ardennes forest.

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, Green Hell, Infantry, Hürtgen Forest, The West Wall, Siegfried Line

D-Day battle flag flown by USS LCI(L) 489 - priceless

My friend Richard Bass just acquired the D-Day battle flag flown by the USS LCI(L) 489 and has done a little research about the ship, found several eye witness accounts, some of which are summarised here. The photos he

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Topics: WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, England, US Coast Guards, Slapton Sands, Infantry, US Navy

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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