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The Cross of Lorraine
About this book
On December 7, 1941, war came to the United States. It came quickly and without warning. Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese and within two days this country was at war with Germany, Japan, and Italy.
" After training in the United Kingdom from 17 April 1944, the 79th Infantry Division landed on Utah Beach, Normandy, 12–14 June and entered combat 19 June 1944, with an attack on Cherbourg Naval Base...It held a defensive line at the Ollonde River until 2 July 1944 and then returned to the offensive, taking La Haye du Puits in house-to-house fighting, 8 July...The advance continued across the Seine, 19 August. Heavy German counterattacks were repelled, 22–27 August, and the division reached the Therain River, 31 August. Moving swiftly to the Franco-Belgian frontier near St. Amand (east of Lille), the division was then moved to XV Corps in eastern France, where it encountered heavy resistance in taking Charmes in street fighting, 12 September....
After rest and training at Lunéville, the division returned to combat with an attack from the Mignevine-Montiguy area, 13 November 1944, which carried it across the Vezouse and Moder Rivers, 18 November-10 December, through Haguenau in spite of determined enemy resistance, and into the Siegfried Line, 17–20 December...The German attempt to establish a bridgehead west of the Rhine at Gambsheim resulted in furious fighting. The 79th beat off German attacks at Hatten and Rittershoffen in an 11-day battle before withdrawing to new defensive positions south of Haguenau on the Moder River, 19 January 1945. During February and March 1945, the division mopped up German resistance, returned to offensive combat, 24 March 1945, crossed the Rhine, drove across the Rhine-Herne Canal, 7 April, secured the north bank of the Ruhr and took part in clearing the Ruhr Pocket until 13 April."-Wiki
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- STORY OF THE PATCH
- A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
- HEADQUARTERS, 79TH INFANTRY DIVISION
- SECTION I - THROUGH FRANCE - 14 June 1944-29 August 1944
- SECTION II - TO BELGIUM AND BACK - 31 August 1944-25 October 1944
- SECTION III - TO THE RHINE - 25 October 1944-14 February 1945
- SECTION IV - OVER THE RHINE - 17 February 1945-9 May 1945
- EX PFC EDITS DIVISION’S WORLD WAR NEWSPAPER
- MINES, BRIDGES, ROADS-THE KEYNOTE OF THE COMBAT ENGINEERS!
- COMBAT MEDICS
- A SALUTE TO THE EYES OF THE DIVISION
- AN MP’S WORK IS NEVER DONE
- COMMUNICATIONS-THE NERVE CENTER OF THE DIVISION!
- OVER A MILLION MILES TO DELIVER SUPPLIES!
- MAINTENANCE MIRACLES KEPT THEM ROLLING
- THE 79TH DIVISION AIR CORPS
- FIGHTING PARSONS
- THE FIFTH G!
- HEADQUARTERS 79TH INFANTRY DIVISION OFFICE OF THE COMMANDING GENERAL
- TO THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR ALL
- AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
- HEADQUARTERS VIII CORPS