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The current mission of the 2nd Infantry Division is to conduct Focused Military Operations while sustaining support to the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC), to decisively defeat the Southern Tagalog Regional Party Committee (STRPC) armed groups and deny their manpower, financial, and logistical resources in ...
British infantry the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment aboard Sherman tanks near Argentan, 21 August 1944 Men of the British 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division being briefed for the invasion, 4–5 June 1944 Canadian chaplain conducting a funeral service in the Normandy bridgehead, 16 July 1944 American troops on board a LCT, ready to ride across the English Channel to France ...
Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive in the Battle of Normandy, from 30 July until 7 August 1944, during the Second World War.The geographical objectives of the attack, undertaken by VIII Corps and XXX Corps of the British Second Army (Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey), were to secure the road junction of Vire and the high ground of Mont Pinçon.
Philippine Division, or from 1944–1947 the 12th Infantry Division, was the core U.S. infantry division of the United States Army's Philippine Department during World War II. The division was organized in April 1922 and primarily consisted of United States Army officers and Filipino enlisted men.
The 30th Infantry Division, located on the road to Périers to the west of Saint-Lô, near Le Mesnil-Durand, commanded by Major General Leland S. Hobbs. The 35th Infantry Division, located on the Isigny road and fighting south to Saint-Lô in a line extending from Pont-Hébert to the vicinity of Hill 122, commanded by Major General Paul W. Baade.
The Battle of La Haye-du-Puits was fought between the armies of the United States and Germany as part of the Normandy Campaign of World War II.Following the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, US First Army under the command of Lieutenant General Omar Bradley began an advance to the south, aiming to break through the German defenses and secure a line from Coutances to Saint-Lô.
The 2nd Armored Division, part of the U.S. V Corps, had advanced off Omaha Beach to support the drive of the 175th Infantry Regiment (29th Division) to Isigny. Its Combat Command A (CCA), consisting of M4 Sherman tanks of the 2nd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment and mechanized infantry of the 3rd Battalion, 41st Armored Infantry Regiment , was ...
Coat of arms and/or unit crest for the 122nd Signal Battalion. The 122nd Signal Battalion was constituted 1 July 1916 in the United States Regular Army, then organized to Fort Bliss in Texas on 10 October 1916.