AIR RAID SHELTER, MARIGNY, FRANCE; CRASHED ALLIED PLANE, GOURVILLE, FRANCE; MAJ. GEN E - LMWWIIHD207
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Constructing air raid shelter in Normandy, crashed P-47 plane, US Soldier in Avranches region US General Brooks arrives, General Patton in Normandy
7.30.44 ST LO BULLDOZER RV digger - TS digger moving through dirt FS digger moving dirt TS digger moving dirt TS man operating digger TS wheels on digger Digger moving through dirt Slate - P-47 Crash By Nazi Ack Ack SLATE: P-47 CRASH BY NAZI ACK ACK WS men standing with crashed plane - men looking at plane US SOLDIERS WITH DESTROYED PLANE TAIL TS soldiers looking at plane Soldier climbing on broken parts of plane STREETS WITH WRECKAGE IN TOWN Soldier bends gun in tire of truck SOLDIER BREAKS RIFLE Car drives down road toward camera soldier standing in car GENERAL BROOKS ROLLS INTO TOWN ON JEEP, 2ND ARMORED DIVISION SOLDIERS TALKING TO CIVILIANS Soldiers speaking with civilians TS soldiers discussing map TS soldiers talking to civilians CU soldier taling to civilians Tank moving through town ALLIED TANK Damaged tank parked - dead body covered on sidewalk Soldier helping injured little girl US MEDIC TREATING LITTLE GIRL NEAR MONUMENT TS soldier applies bandages to little girl - little girl smiles CU of little girl smiling Soldier getting water from pump US SOLDIER PUMPING WATER SIGN FOR AVRANCHES AND GAVRAY SIGN FOR TESSY S. VIRE Men gathered around a truck Horse and buggy pass women , men and children follow HORSE DRAWN WAGON CARRYING FAMILY AND BELONGINGS Slate - COUTANCE 7-29 SLATE: 7.29.44 COUTANCE Street sign - ORVAL 3k - GRANVILLE 28k SIGN: ORVAL AND GRANVILLE Tanks roll past destroyed buildings and fallen trees TS soldiers driving prisoners GERMAN POW BOYS BEING CARTED THRU THE TOWN Soldiers walking on road of destroyed buildings - medical car drives past Priest walks among the rubble in front of a church - passes destroyed buildings PRIEST ALONE WALKING OUTSIDE CHURCH, DEBRIS ALL AROUND TS priests talking to soldiers in street SEVERAL PRIESTS, A JEEP, US SOLDIERS CU General George Patton in car talking to soldier GENERAL PATTON WITH SIGN FOR COUTAINVILLE BEHIND HIM Soldiers salute Patton as he drives by Slate - July 30 1944 Location St. Lo WS destroyed city Soldiers ride past destruction WS soldiers, cars and tanks riding through town TS Tank driving by WS destroyed city Bulldozer moving rubble CU bulldozer moving rubble
Avranches
Avranches, France, showing the Patton memorial, commemorating Third Army's famous breakout from the Normandy beachead, which began with the liberation of Avranches.
2010 Patton Tour - Avranches Breaking Through
2010 In The Footsteps Of Patton - Stephen Ambrose tour with our host and guide, Kevin Hymel.
Interviews with WW2 veterans, Harry Cruse and Bill Umstot. Harry Cruse is a WWII veteran from the 83rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion and Bill Umstot is a WWII veteran who served as an MP with the Provost Marshal for Gen. Patton's Third Army.
US soldiers advance along ruined town of Mortain in France. HD Stock Footage
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US soldiers advance along ruined town of Mortain in France.
US soldiers in Mortain, France during World War II. Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 120th Infantry, 30th Division move through the ruins of Mortain. Rubbled buildings, wrecked American trucks and tanks along road side. Troops walking through the town. A memorial to the people of Mortain who died in World War I. A wrecked American jeep and a tank at a stone wall. Weary soldiers leaning against the wall. Other sit along the curb. Location: Mortain France. Date: August 12, 1944.
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Défilé de chars dans Avranches
TRIBUTE TO FALLEN AMERICAN SOLDIER - WWII (WORLD WAR II) 1945 PRUM, GERMANY (My Uncle)
Tribute to my uncle who was killed in action during a fierce battle with his Fourth Infantry Division near Prum, Germany on March 2, 1945. We were told that they (don't know WHO they is) wouldn't let the medics on the field that day to help the injured soldiers. We were told he bled to death. He was born August, 1921. His enlistment date was 11/25/1940. His rank was T.Sgt. He left behind a widow, my aunt, Roberta and no children. Pictures are shown of him and our hometown are from 1:11 to 2:49 . Other images from free public domain from internet archives or from google search.
4th INFANTRY DIVISION
Activated:
June 3, 1940
Nicknames: Ivy Division; Famous Fourth.
Slogan: Steadfast and loyal.
Shoulder patch: Four green ivy leaves attached at the stems and opening at the four corners of a squadron on brown background.
Inherited from the original 4th Division of World War I, the insignia is composed of four green ivy leaves attached at the stems and opening at the four corners of a square on a brown background. The word i-vy, as pronounced, suggests the characters used in the Roman Numeral IV.
Combat Chronicle
The 8th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Division was one of the first Allied units to hit the beaches at Normandy on D-day, 6 June 1944. Relieving the isolated 82d Airborne Division at Ste. Mere Eglise, the 4th cleared the Cotentin peninsula and took part in the capture of Cherbourg, 25 June. After taking part in the fighting near Periers, 6-12 July,, the Division broke through the left flank of the German Seventh Army, helped stem the German drive toward Avranches, and by the end of August had moved to Paris, assisting the French in the liberation of their capital. The 4th then moved into Belgium through Houffalize to attack the Siegfried Line at Schnee Eifel, 14 September, and made several penetrations. Slow progress into Germany continued in October, and by 6 November the Division reached the Hurtgen Forest, where a severe engagement took place until early December. It then shifted to Luxembourg, only to meet the German winter offensive head-on, 16 December 1944. Although its lines were dented, it managed to hold the Germans at Dickweiler and Osweiler, and, counterattacking in January across the Sauer, overran German positions in Fouhren and Vianden. Halted at the Prum in February by heavy enemy resistance, the Division finally crossed 28 February near Olzheim, and raced on across the Kyll, 7 March. After a short rest, the 4th moved across the Rhine 29 March at Worms, attacked and secured Wurzburg and by 3 April had established a bridgehead across the Main at Ochsenfurt. Speeding southeast across Bavaria, the Division had reached Miesbach on the Isar, 2 May 1945, when it was relieved and placed on occupation duty. [1]
Campaigns:
Normandy
Northern France
Ardennes
Rhineland
Central Europe
References
↑ U.S. Army Center of Military History
Mortain - Pont-Bellanger - Normandie - 03/08/1944 - DDay-Overlord
Date : 3 août 1944 - August 3rd, 1944
Sujet | Subject:
- Reportage sur la vie en campagne près du front pour des soldats américains dans le secteur de Mortain (Manche). La caméra suit des soldats avançant vers le front dans la région de Pont-Bellanger (Calvados), croisant en chemin des cadavres au pied des haies et l'épave d'un véhicule de reconnaissance M8 Greyhound américain dans lequel deux corps calcinés reposent encore.
- Report about the life near the front line for American soldiers in the Mortain sector (Manche department). The camera follows the soldiers advancing towards the front in the region of Pont-Bellanger (Calvados department). Bodies of soldiers can be seen near hedgerows and in the wreckage of a US M8 Greyhound reconnaissance vehicle.
Lieu | Location:
- Pont-Bellanger, Calvados, Normandie
- Mortain, Manche, Normandie
Personnalité(s) | Person(s): --
Unité(s) | Unit(s): --
Source: US National Archives
N°: INV 1009
M8 Greyhound :
Cobra la percée - 5 premières minutes du film
U.S. Third Army Advances Along the Loire, 1944
General Patton's U.S. Third Army drives along the Loire River, 1944. More military videos at
2010 Patton Tour - Hill 314 (Interview with Frank Denius)
2010 In The Footsteps Of Patton - Stephen Ambrose tour with our host and guide, Kevin Hymel.
Visit to Hill 314, Mortain Battlefield, plus a chance encounter with Frank Denius, one of the heroes of Old Hickory and The Lost Battalion. Frank Denius survived the onslaught at Hill 314, after his battalion was cut-off and surrounded by German Panzer Divisions, for more than 6 days. Trained as a Forward Observer, he called artillery fire that helped keep the men on Hill 314 alive and eventually turned back the German offensive. Although the Germans gave his battalion an ultimatum, to surrender or be annihilated...he recalls; we had no thoughts of surrender. Frank was wounded twice and received 4 Silver Stars.
General Omar Bradley on Breakout and Pursuit by Martin Blumenson, 1961
The Big Picture, Produced by the Army Pictorial Service for CBS, probably 1961. General of the Army Omar Bradley, commanding general of US First Army, discusses Breakout and Pursuit by Martin Blumenson, one of the volumes in the Official History of World War II (The Green Books) covering Operation Cobra and the drive to the Siegfried Line, late July - mid-September 1944.
Falaise pocket
The Falaise Pocket or Battle of the Falaise Pocket (12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War. A pocket was formed around Falaise, Calvados in which the German Army Group B, with the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe West) were encircled by the Western Allies. The battle is also referred to as the Battle of the Falaise Gap, after the corridor which the Germans sought to maintain to allow their escape and is sometimes referred to as the Chambois Pocket, the Falaise-Chambois Pocket, the Argentan–Falaise Pocket or the Trun–Chambois Gap. The battle resulted in the destruction of most of Army Group B west of the Seine river, which opened the way to Paris and the German border for the Allied armies.
Following Operation Cobra, the American breakout from the Normandy beachhead, rapid advances were made to the south and south-east by the Third U.S. Army under the command of General George Patton. Despite lacking the resources to defeat the U.S. breakthrough and simultaneous British and Canadian offensives south of Caumont and Caen, Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, the commander of Army Group B, was not permitted by Adolf Hitler to withdraw but was ordered to conduct a counter-offensive at Mortain against the U.S. breakthrough. Four depleted panzer divisions were not enough to defeat the First U.S. Army. Operation Lüttich was a disaster, which drove the Germans deeper into the Allied envelopment.
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US Army Cobra Division (3rd Div) and 'Cook' Regiment (16th Infantry Division) soldiers march along dock area, Italy.
Soldiers of 'Cobra' Division (3rd Div) and 'Cook' Regiment (16th Infantry Division) US Army march along dock area. Landing crafts approach dock. Troops march on dockside. Location: Naples Italy. Date: July 30, 1944.
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Military history of the United States during World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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The military history of the United States in World War II covers the war against Germany, Italy, and Japan, starting with the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. During the first two years of World War II, the United States had maintained formal neutrality as made official in the Quarantine Speech delivered by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, while supplying Britain, the Soviet Union, and China with war materiel through the Lend-Lease Act which was signed into law on 11 March 1941, as well as deploying the U.S. military to replace the British invasion forces in Iceland. In the Pacific Theater, there was unofficial early U.S. combat activity such as the Flying Tigers.
During the war, over 16 million Americans served in the United States Armed Forces, with 405,399 killed in action and 671,278 wounded. There were also 130,201 American prisoners of war, of whom 116,129 returned home after the war. Key civilian advisors to President Roosevelt included Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who mobilized the nation's industries and induction centers to supply the Army, commanded by General George Marshall and the Army Air Forces under General Hap Arnold. The Navy, led by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Admiral Ernest King, proved more autonomous. Overall priorities were set by Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, chaired by William Leahy. Highest priority went to the defeat of Germany in Europe, but first the war against Japan in the Pacific was more urgent after the sinking of the main battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor.
Admiral King put Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, based in Hawaii, in charge of the Pacific War against Japan. The result was a series of some of the most famous naval battles in history. The Imperial Japanese Navy had the advantage, taking the Philippines as well as British and Dutch possessions, and threatening Australia but in June 1942, its main carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway, and the Americans seized the initiative. The Pacific War became one of island hopping, so as to move air bases closer and closer to Japan. The Army, based in Australia under General Douglas MacArthur, steadily advanced across New Guinea to the Philippines, with plans to invade the Japanese home islands in late 1945. With its merchant fleet sunk by American submarines, Japan ran short of aviation gasoline and fuel oil, as the U.S. Navy in June 1944 captured islands within bombing range of the Japanese home islands. Strategic bombing directed by General Curtis Lemay destroyed all the major Japanese cities, as the U.S. captured Okinawa after heavy losses in spring 1945. With the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and an invasion and Soviet intervention imminent, Japan surrendered.
The war against Germany involved aid to Britain, her allies, and the Soviet Union, with the U.S. supplying munitions until it could ready an invasion force. U.S. forces were first tested to a limited degree in the North African Campaign and then employed more significantly with British Forces in Italy in 1943–45, where U.S. forces, representing about a third of the Allied forces deployed, bogged down after Italy surrendered and the Germans took over. Finally the main invasion of France took place in June 1944, under General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army Air Forces and the British Royal Air Force engaged in the area bombardment of German cities and systematically targeted German transportation links and synthetic oil plants, as it knocked out what was left of the Luftwaffe post Battle of Britain in 1944. With the Soviets unstoppable in the east, and the Allies unstoppable in the west, Germany was squeezed to death. Berlin fell to the Soviets in May 1945, and with Adolf Hitler dead, the Germans surrendered.
The military effort was strongly supported by civilians on the home front, who provided the military pe ...
Final Reunion of the 5th Armored Division
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Normandy landings | Wikipedia audio article
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later Europe) from Nazi control, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.
Planning for the operation began in 1943. In the months leading up to the invasion, the Allies conducted a substantial military deception, codenamed Operation Bodyguard, to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the main Allied landings. The weather on D-Day was far from ideal and the operation had to be delayed 24 hours; a further postponement would have meant a delay of at least two weeks as the invasion planners had requirements for the phase of the moon, the tides, and the time of day that meant only a few days each month were deemed suitable. Adolf Hitler placed German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in command of German forces and of developing fortifications along the Atlantic Wall in anticipation of an Allied invasion.
The amphibious landings were preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and an airborne assault—the landing of 24,000 American, British, and Canadian airborne troops shortly after midnight. Allied infantry and armoured divisions began landing on the coast of France at 06:30. The target 50-mile (80 km) stretch of the Normandy coast was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Strong winds blew the landing craft east of their intended positions, particularly at Utah and Omaha. The men landed under heavy fire from gun emplacements overlooking the beaches, and the shore was mined and covered with obstacles such as wooden stakes, metal tripods, and barbed wire, making the work of the beach-clearing teams difficult and dangerous. Casualties were heaviest at Omaha, with its high cliffs. At Gold, Juno, and Sword, several fortified towns were cleared in house-to-house fighting, and two major gun emplacements at Gold were disabled, using specialised tanks.
The Allies failed to achieve any of their goals on the first day. Carentan, St. Lô, and Bayeux remained in German hands, and Caen, a major objective, was not captured until 21 July. Only two of the beaches (Juno and Gold) were linked on the first day, and all five beachheads were not connected until 12 June; however, the operation gained a foothold which the Allies gradually expanded over the coming months. German casualties on D-Day have been estimated at 4,000 to 9,000 men. Allied casualties were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead.
Museums, memorials, and war cemeteries in the area now host many visitors each year.
EL MONTE SAINT-MICHEL (Normandía)
¡Alerta, guripas! ????
Al igual que en el avance aliado durante la Operación Cobra, a finales de julio de 1944, hoy llegamos al MONTE SAINT-MICHEL. Un destino mundialmente famoso por las grandes mareas que inundan su bahía transformando durante unas horas a este monte en una isla.
Pero durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial este precioso lugar tuvo su propia historia.
¿Queréis conocerla?
Si queréis ayudarnos esta es nuestra cuenta de Paypal ????
Otra forma es haciéndoos con una camiseta de Tropa Guripa.
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¡Rompan filas!
AUF DIE SEINE
Août 1944, les troupes allemandes en retraite et en déroute après le carnage de la poche de falaise tentent de franchir la seine par tous les moyens.Les colonnes de véhicules et de fantassins talonnées par les alliés,harcelées jours et nuits par l'aviation passent la seine et fuient vers l'est .
Août 2016, l'HVCA reconstitue cette fresque historique en empruntant ce même chemin pour la mémoire collective , notre plaisir ainsi que celui des spectateurs qui ont eu la chance d'assister a la scène (Traversée de la seine entre Heurteauville et Jumiège en bac).
French Resistance | Wikipedia audio article
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The French Resistance (French: La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women (called the Maquis in rural areas), who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The men and women of the Resistance came from all economic levels and political leanings of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics (including priests), and also citizens from the ranks of liberals, anarchists and communists.
The French Resistance played a significant role in facilitating the Allies' rapid advance through France following the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, and the lesser-known invasion of Provence on 15 August, by providing military intelligence on the German defences known as the Atlantic Wall and on Wehrmacht deployments and orders of battle. The Resistance also planned, coordinated, and executed acts of sabotage on the electrical power grid, transport facilities, and telecommunications networks. It was also politically and morally important to France, both during the German occupation and for decades afterward, because it provided the country with an inspiring example of the patriotic fulfillment of a national imperative, countering an existential threat to French nationhood. The actions of the Resistance stood in marked contrast to the collaboration of the French regime based at Vichy, the French people who joined the pro-Nazi Milice française and the French men who joined the Waffen SS.
After the landings in Normandy and Provence, the paramilitary components of the Resistance were organised more formally, into a hierarchy of operational units known, collectively, as the French Forces of the Interior (FFI). Estimated to have a strength of 100,000 in June 1944, the FFI grew rapidly and reached approximately 400,000 by October of that year. Although the amalgamation of the FFI was, in some cases, fraught with political difficulties, it was ultimately successful, and it allowed France to rebuild the fourth-largest army in the European theatre (1.2 million men) by VE Day in May 1945. Marcel Marceau; a famous mime named Bip was also in the French Resistance. His father was taken captive and was taken to a concentration camp by the nazis. He became part of the French Resistence. To help free kids he pretended to take Boy Scouts on a hike and then hike to Switzerland for safety. He is also proclaimed to be the founder of the floss dance. He would use it in his mime shows.
MVPA Convention 2018 Part 2 | Military Collectors
Part two of Bob’s trip to te MVPA Convention in Louisville KY. In this special episode, Bob talks to two World War II veterans about their experiences.
First Tom Grasser, talks about landing on Omaha beach with his WC54 Ambulance.
Then Bob listens to Melvin Richardson tell about his experience in the Seabees throughout the Pacific theatre. Two great stories from the Greatest Generation.