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In 1944, American soldiers advance up the Cotentin Peninsula towards Cherbourg. 🇺🇸
General Harold Blakeley, an Assistant Division Commander with the 4th Infantry Division, driving the Willys jeep. 🪖
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82 years ago today, Marines take cover behind an M4 Sherman tank while clearing Japanese forces in northern Saipan. 🪖
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82 years ago today, Pfc. William Jackson and T4 Joseph King of the 1st Infantry Division ride through a French town atop a donkey. 🪖
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In July of 1944, a Navy Corpsman gives a drink to a wounded Marine during the fighting on Guam. 🪖
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82 years ago today, soldiers of the 79th Infantry Division scatter during an attack by a German unit in Normandy. 🪖
During World War II, the 79th Infantry Division slugged its way through one Nazi stronghold after another. 🥊
Their journey began in mid June of 1944 as they landed on Utah Beach & entered combat on the 19th, just south of Cherbourg, & concluded across the Rhine & into the heart of Germany. 🇫🇷🇩🇪
In 248 days of combat, the division suffered 15,000 casualties with nearly 2,500 men killed in action. 🇺🇸
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Soldiers of the 37th Infantry Division take a break on a fallen palm tree during operations against the Japanese on Bougainville. 🪖
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85 years ago, General George S. Patton makes the cover of Life Magazine…the whole war is ahead of him here 🪖
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During the Sicily advance, General Patton was always puffing his signature cigar. 🚬
Stopping in a newly liberated town, he stepped out of his vehicle, ivory-handled pistols on his hips, & casually smoked while surveying the scene. 🪖
When a subordinate suggested rest, Patton growled: “Rest? Hell, we’re beating Monty to Messina before he even gets his tea!” 🇺🇸
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In 1943, German pilot Franz Stigler came across Charles Brown’s crippled B-17 trying to make it home after a bomb run. Instead of shooting it down, he escorted it home.✈️
The pilots met up 50 years later and became friends, and both died within a few months of each other. 🇺🇸🇩🇪
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84 years ago today, two wounded American Infantrymen help each other out of the dense jungles of New Georgia. 🪖
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250 years of Marine Corps service rifles…can you name them all? 🤔
Yes = 👍
No = 👎
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In July of 1944, Marine Private Thomas Underwood of the 4th Marine Division takes a well deserved sip of water from his canteen after extended fighting on the Island of Saipan. 🪖
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Bradford Freeman, the last surviving member of Easy Company who passed away 4 years ago in July of 2022. 🪦
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The Rue Montoir Poissonnerie in Caen, France, with the Church of Saint-Pierre in the background—July 1944 and now. 🪖
Created by: Battlefield Tours 🎨
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A Marine aboard his M3A1 Stuart Light Tank on New Georgia near Munda in the summer of 1943. 🪖
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In July of 1944, Lt. Richard Bryson leads his men of the 3rd Marine Division into Agana City during the fighting on Guam. 🪖
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In July of 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley share a laugh as they leave General Ira Wyche’s 79th Infantry Division headquarters in Huanville, France. 🪖
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83 years ago this evening, elements of the 82nd Airborne Division make their first combat jump on the island of Sicily for Operation Husky. 🪂
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101st Airborne paratroopers receiving medals for their heroism in Normandy at the Place De La République, Carentan, France. 🇺🇸
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“First & foremost, a leader should strive to be an individual of flawless character, technical competence, and moral courage.”
82 years ago today, Marines take cover behind an M4 Sherman tank while clearing Japanese forces in northern Saipan. 🪖
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In 1944, a Marine with his M1 Garand during the fighting on Saipan. 🪖
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After receiving care for a scalp wound, a baby is cared for by men a medical unit of the 27th Infantry Division. 🪖
The baby was discovered by a tank crew, still cradled in her deceased mother’s arms, during the fighting below Mt. Tapotchau on Saipan in July of 1944. 🗻
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On this day in 1770, a Russian fleet smashes the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Chesma. The Turks lose 16 ships-of-the-line, six frigates and more than 40 smaller vessels. One Russian ship-of-the-line is destroyed.
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“I felt it an honor to serve my country, God and country, same as the rest of them.”
-Cpl. Desmond Doss 🇺🇸
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Close call in North Africa for these American heroes. 🇺🇸
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In July of 1944, Marines advance through the shattered outskirts of Garapan on the island of Saipan. 🪖
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In June of 1944, Captain William Hooper of the 79th Infantry Division escorts German POWs through the streets of Cherbourg, France. 🪖
Hooper was killed in action 82 years ago today, 1 week after this photo was taken. 🪦
PieceJake on the colorization 🎨
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