Normandy American Heroes Blog | WWII Engineers Special Brigade

Private First Class Weldon E. McClane, memories of WWII in Normandy

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Topics: World War 2, World War Two, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII, Cotentin Peninsula, WWII 297th Engineer Battalion The Jack Rabbits

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

The Final Countdown of the Germans defeated by the VIII Corps in Brest

After the fall of Forts Montbarey and Keranroux, the enemy withdrew to its final line of defense at Recouvrance, and to the submarine base along the waterfront to the South.

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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 1st US Army, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII USA General Troy Houston Middleton, USA, Infantry, Third Reich, France, Rangers, Brittany

Kerognan guns, a defense of Festung Brest, taken by the 115th Regiment

In the northwest of Brest, precisely at the South of the cities of Guilers and Bohars, was a group of strongpoints. Built in the villages of Kerognan, Loguillo and Le Moulin du Beuzit, they formed a triangular line of

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 29th Infantry Division, World War Two, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII 8th Infantry Division, Infantry, Third Reich, France, Brest Kerognan guns, Brittany

The fall of Montbarey & Keranroux Forts, VIII Corps battle of Brittany

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

HITLER HAD A FORTRESS AROUND EUROPE BUT FORGOT THE ROOF ON TOP!..1944

1944

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, World War Two, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII Air Force Blockbuster Bomb "Cookie", WWII P-47 Thunderbolt fighter plane, WWII Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, WWII P-51 Mustang, WWII Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane, WWII Air Fighting Development Unit (ADFU), Third Reich Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane, WWII Consolidated B-24 Liberator, WWII Eighth Air Force, WWII USA Lieutenant Joseph Kennedy, Nazi bombardier Arado Ar 234 B Blitz, WWII Douglas C-47 Skytrain - Dakota, USA Clarkair CA-1 Bulldozer, WWII Belgium Battle of the Bulge, England, Slapton Sands, USA, WWII Arthur Harris, Air Force Commanding-in-Chief, Hawker Hurricane fighter plane, William the Conqueror, WWII Germany, Operation Argument, Joseph Goebbels, Third Reich, France, King of England, US Navy, the Big Week, Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger fighter plane, WWII England, Spitfire fighter plane, Lieutenant Colonel Leon Vance, Third Reich Minister Propaganda, Nazi, Medal of Honor, Normandy, Kassel Mission bombardment, Pas-de-Calais

The Bastard Brigade oN D-DAY OF General Cota

Born on May 30th 1893 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Norman Daniel Cota was the "Deputy General", Assistant Division Commander of the 29th Infantry Division on D-Day. He joined the Military School of West Point on June

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Topics: World War 2, WWII Atlantic Wall, WWII 115th Infantry Regiment, WWII 175th Infantry Regiment, WWII 29th Infantry Division, World War Two, WWII 1st US Army, WWII Engineers Special Brigade, WWII Duplex Drive Amphibious DD tank, WWII Duplex Drive Amphibious Tank, WWII 146th Special Underwater Demolition Battalion, US Coast Guards, USA, Infantry, US Navy, West Point military academy