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Operation Torch—the invasion of French North Africa—involving the 9th, 3rd Infantry and the 2nd Armored Divisions, initiated on 8 November 1942, was the first ground combat operations for the United States in the European theater of World War II.
The US Army's 8th Corps, was tasked to move east to west across the north of Brittany with Brest as their first target. At the same time, the US Army's 20th Corps, moved south to the city of Nantes, with both intending to meet up at Lorient. Once liberated, the Allies planned to build an additional harbour at Quiberon. [1]
The Battle for Brest was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front during World War II.Part of the overall Battle for Brittany and the Allied plan for the invasion of mainland Europe called for the capture of port facilities, in order to ensure the timely delivery of the enormous amount of war materiel required to supply the invading Allied forces.
By MORGAN WHITAKER Monday marks the 70th anniversary of the day allied forces in World War II liberated Paris from Adolf Hitler's control. The capital had been under Nazi occupation for more than ...
A 1985 US Army study of the Lorraine campaign was highly critical of Patton. [7] The document states: Few of the Germans defending Lorraine could be considered first-rate troops. Third Army encountered whole battalions made up of deaf men, others of cooks, and others consisting entirety of soldiers with stomach ulcers.
The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II.It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June 1944.Allied troops, mainly American, isolated and captured the fortified port, which was considered vital to the campaign in Western Europe, in a hard-fought, month-long campaign.
The task of taking control of Saint-Lô was entrusted to the XIX Corps of the First United States Army, under General Charles H. Corlett. As of July 15, 1944, the corps included: The 29th Infantry Division, located on the Bayeux road from La Luzerne to Saint-André-de-l'Épine and moving southwest into the city.
The Seventh Army was a United States army created during World War II that evolved into the United States Army Europe (USAREUR) during the 1950s and 1960s. It served in North Africa and Italy in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and France and Germany in the European Theater between 1942 and 1945.