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A YOUNG CAPTAIN GAVE HIS LIFE FOR FRANCE 🌹

On July 14, 1944, Cpt James E. Rountree paid the ultimate sacrifice in Normandy, France.
Born in 1914 in the State of Texas, Cpt Rountree was a member of the 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division. His unit landed on Utah Beach a few days after D-Day and captured the city of Cherbourg. He led his men through terrible combat in the hedgerows country until he was sadly killed in action near La Haye-du-Puits.
Because his family cannot attend the 76th Anniversary of D-Day, we visited his final resting place today and paid our respect on behalf of the family.
Thank you for your service and sacrifice Cpt James E. Rountree, we will never forget. 🇺🇸🇫🇷 Thanks to the ABMC and the staff of the Normandy American Cemetery for making this moment possible.

#abmc #wwii #ww2 #79thinfantrydivision #usarmy #army #infantry #dday #cherbourg #lahayedupuits #captain #youth #rip #silverstar #purpleheart #omahabeach #collevillesurmer #normandyamericancemetery

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DDAY VETERAN VISITS HIS FRIEND KILLED IN ACTION ON OMAHA BEACH 🌹

Yesterday, we were humbled to escort Charles N. Shay, a combat medic of the 1st Infantry Division on Omaha Beach, to visit his friend, Edward Morozewicz, who paid the ultimate sacrifice on June 6, 1944.

We’re grateful that the Normandy American Cemetery, which is closed due to the lock down, opened privately for Charles to be able to visit his brother-in-arms Edward.

Charles gave an emotional tribute to him as he laid flowers and did a small ceremony at Edward’s final resting place. It was a solemn reminder to never forget the price that was paid by so many for our freedom.

#abmc #normandy #dday #1stwave #overlord #omahabeach #utahbeach #usarmy #infantry #brotherinarms

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Just bought the last book @till.victory at @lapetitemusette_carentan with my buddy @normandy1944_bertrandfroger :) It’s time to read :) #ww2 #wwii #ww2letters #dday #omahabeach #utahbeach #overlord #book #newbook #history

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Exciting news my friends 🙂 👌🎥🎙➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖. The department of La Manche, Normandy, contacted us earlier this month regarding the 76th Anniversary of D-Day. Unfortunately, due to the corona virus, D-Day will have to be remembered and honored here in a different way than it has in the past. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
We are excited to be able to participate with the department of La Manche by recording phone interviews with WWII veterans that served in Normandy. 🎙
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Then we will be creating a video montage with @orianziad and @bluewaveezz of the different recordings to be shared on the platform of La Manche, Normandy. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
We’re happy to be able to help with this project and look forward to sharing with you all the finished production. We also are thankful for the areas here who, despite the lockdown, are finding ways to still honor and remember those who fought and died for our freedom 76 years ago.🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧 #ww2 #wwii #ww2veterans #dday #omahabeach #utahbeach #stmereeglise #caretan #ddayexperience #overlord #stlo #normandie #normandy #bayeux #recording #mic #interview #theygaveitall #june61944 #lamanche #honor #freedom #76 #usarmy #army #paratroopers #parachute #infantry #remember #audiosforedits

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Pvt Charles Williams was born in Natrona, Pa, on 27 February 1922. He went to Vandegrift Schools before he enlisted in the United States Armed Forces on 20 sept 1940. Trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,he was assigned to duty overseas with B Company, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Division. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
The 9th Infantry Division landed on Utah Beach a few days after D-Day and took part in bloody fights in the Cotentin Peninsula with the objective of capturing the western side of Cherbourg. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Sadly, Pvt Charles Williams was killed in action on June 20, 1944, in Teurthéville- Hague, just a few days before the liberation of Cherbourg. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Thank you Pvt Charles Williams for your service and sacrifice, we will never forget. 🇫🇷🇺🇸 # infantry #army #wwii #ww2 #dday #normandy #utahbeach #omahabeach #pointe du hoc# cherbourg #normandy #sacrifice #foreveryoung #youth #purpleheart #america #colleville

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Please help us to wish a happy birthday to Ceo Bauer who is celebrating 97 today and join us in expressing our heartfelt thanks for what he has done to preserve our freedom 76 years ago. 🇺🇸🇫🇷
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During WWII, Ceo Bauer served in the 377th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division and saw heavy combat in the eastern part of France near Metz. He was seriously wounded in action in November of 1944. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
In November 2019, Ceo came back in France one more time to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Metz and as well to visit the grave of his hometown friend, Rolland J. Hill, killed in action in Normandy on July 14th, 1944. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Watch this very moving video of Ceo visiting his friend 75 years after his death. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Life is precious, happy birthday Ceo, many more to come 🙂 © Joey Van Meesen & Florent Plana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7hvsT6mVM

#ww2 #wwii #veteran #ww2veteran #footstepsresearchers

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I just got off the phone with my friend and WWII Veteran Walter Driscoll who turned 100 yesterday. 😎
During WWII, Walter served with the 8th Infantry Division and landed in Normandy in early July of 1944. A few days later, he was seriously wounded in action.

Please help me wish a happy birthday to Walter and join me in expressing our heartfelt thanks for what he has done to preserve our freedom 76 years ago. His daughter will show him your comments.

#ww2 #wwii #ww2veterans #wwiiveterans #usarmy #army #goldenarrow #8thinfantrydivision #8thinfantry #purpleheart #dday #

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Click on the link in my bio to watch the full video. 🎥
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THE DAY MY WAR ENDED 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 ➖➖➖➖➖
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe. As we look at this monumental moment and the global impact it had, it is easy to lose sight of the individuals and the lives that were each affected in different ways. For the next week we would like to share with all of you a few individual perspectives of the end of the war in hopes to shed light on the human response to this turning point in history.
For Mel Campbell, a Purple Heart and Silver Star recipient from the 87th Infantry Division, the war ended abruptly as you can see in the video below. As Campbell prepared mentally and physically to go into battle, four words were said that would alter his life. It is hard to imagine the relief that he must have felt as emotions rushed through and he realized he could finally stop. He was done. No more death, no more destruction, and no more fighting. After six long years the war had finally ended in Europe and 75 years later the relief is still visible on Campbell’s face. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ ➖➖➖➖
Today as we celebrate the freedoms and liberties that were restored, may we also remember the sacrifice and the price that was paid by so many to free Europe. We will never forget.

Be sure to watch the video until the end. (after the testimony)

https://ww2veteransmemories.org/

#ww2 #wwii #ww2veteran #veday #victoryineurope #usarmy #army #infantry #militaria #75 #freedom #sacrifice #people #love #death #remember #remembrance

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It is with deep sadness that we share with you the sad news of the passing of WWII veteran Cyril Tasker. 🇬🇧
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Back in December of 2017, we were very fortunate to conduct an interview with Cyril Tasker and his lovely wife Jeanne. They had been married for 73 years !
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Cyril was called to serve his country in 1942 and was later assigned to the 716th Light Composite Company (RASC). His unit operated as a support unit for the 6th Airborne Division for the invasion of Normandy.
Goodbye Cyril, you will be missed.

#ww2 #wwii #airborne #dday #pegasus

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Each family has their war secrets, many individuals have been traumatized and never talked about their experiences to their own family. That was the case with my two great grandpas who both served during World War 1. 🇫🇷
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Sometimes, hidden in the back shelf of a closet, memories can be safely locked away in a box with pictures and memorabilia. For the war survivors, many don't want to loose the memories of their comrades they have served with but may not want to share it with people who haven't experienced the same painful moments. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
The same type of box was recently found at my grandpa's farm as the family was going through his estate after he passed away in 2016. Many incredible pictures and letters were found and I am very happy to share a few with you today. I have always been fascinated by medics and I am proud to say that one of my great grandpa was one of them.
Maurice Paris fought during WW1 in the french army. It seems that he was at one point with the 8th Company, 2nd Battalion of the 104th Infantry Regiment and was declared missing in action after he was captured in the fall of 1914. It could be during a Battle in La Marne or in La Somme.
My family heard that he was liberated in 1915 (don't know why) and became a stretcher bearer with the 103rd Territorial Division.(still looking for info). He was wounded at one point as we have a picture of him taken in 1916 with a group of wounded french soldiers. I'm still working on putting the pieces of the puzzle together but it's difficult as I'm starting this project 102 years after WW1 ended. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
My great grandpa would never talk about it and no one in my family has ever seen these pictures before.

I am very proud to share them with you today.

#ww1 #worldwar1 #frencharmy #infantry #medicalcorps #medic #pow #missinginaction

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LIBERATION OF DACHAU - APRIL 29, 1945🕯️ On this day, 75 years ago, Dachau concentration camp was liberated by american forces of the 42nd & 45th Infantry Division and 20th Armored Division.
The camp of Dachau is considered as the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in 1933, which was initially intended to hold political prisoners. After its opening, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and, eventually, the imprisonment of Jews.

More than 200 thousand innocent people died in Dachau because of the brutality and the cruelty of Nazy regime.
On April 29, 1945, soldiers of the 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Felix L. Sparks, approaching the sprawling Dachau complex from the southwest, found 39 railway boxcars containing some 2,000 skeletal corpses parked on rail tracks just outside the complex itself. Brain tissue was splattered on the ground from one victim found nearby with a crushed skull. The smell of decaying bodies and human excrement, and the sight of naked, emaciated bodies induced vomiting, crying, disbelief, and rage in the advancing troops.

Some of the German guards who surrendered were killed by U.S. soldiers and concentration camp internees at Dachau but it is unclear how many SS members were killed in the incident.

Some would argue the unfairness of an execution without trial, however, it’s hard to imagine the rage the American soldiers must have felt upon finding the camps and the cruelties that took place within. In some ways you can understand how they could take justice into their own hands.

#holocaust #shoah #camps #pow #deathcamp #dachau #nazi #death #usarmy #army #liberation #freedom #75 #ww2 #wwii #1945 #footstepsresearchers

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APRIL 27, 1945 - We have seen what can be called the living dead. 🕯️🌹 As Allied troops moved across Germany in the spring of 1945 in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter thousands of concentration camp prisoners and death camps.The battle-hardened Allied soldiers were shocked at what they discovered. US soldier Aaron A. Eiferman, with the 12th Armored Division, writes a letter to his wife describing conditions in Kaufering IV, one of the Nazi concentration camps in the Landsberg area. " We have seen what can be called the living dead "

It is hard to believe that anyone can deny that these atrocities ever happened, as there are so many liberators that witnessed the horrific acts that took place in the Nazi camps.
Commandant Eichelsdorfer, in charge of the camp, was captured a few days after the liberators arrived and brought back to the camp to be confronted with his crime; he was forced to stand in the middle of the corpses while the German civilians were encouraged to scream insults at him. ©United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/page-1-of-letter-from-aaron-eiferman

#deathcamp #nazi #powcamps #liberation #ww2 #wwii #freedom #neverforget #usarmy #army #infantry

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FINAL JUMP FOR A DDAY PARATROOPER 🇺🇸 It is with deep sadness that I share with all of you the passing of DDay paratrooper Bob Noody. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
One of the most famous photos of men of the 101st Airborne Division aboard a C-47 just before take off for Normandy. In the center with a bazooka is Bob Noody of F Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Bob was one of the kindest men I’ve ever met. You will be greatly missed Bob. 😞

#ww2 #wwii #wwiihistory #militariacollector #militaria #purpleheart #dday #airborne #overlord #506thpir #101stairbornedivision #paratrooper #screamingeagle #bandofbrothers #hero #angelofmercy #rip

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HE GAVE HIS LIFE AND RECEIVED THE MEDAL OF HONOR FOR BRAVERY 75 YEARS AGO. 🇺🇸 I know it's a long post but PFC Martin O. May died at the age of 23 to preserve our freedom. Please take 5 minutes of your day to read his extraordinary story, I think he deserves to be remembered.
PFC Martin O. May served in the United States Army during World War II in the 307th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery and sacrifice at legusuku-Yama on Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands from April 19 to 21, 1945. " He gallantly maintained a 3-day stand in the face of terrible odds when American troops fought for possession of the rugged slopes of legusuku-Yama on Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands. After placing his heavy machinegun in an advantageous yet vulnerable position on a ridge to support riflemen, he became the target of fierce mortar and small arms fire from counterattacking Japanese. He repulsed this assault by sweeping the enemy with accurate bursts while explosions and ricocheting bullets threw blinding dust and dirt about him. He broke up a second counterattack by hurling grenades into the midst of the enemy forces, and then refused to withdraw, volunteering to maintain his post and cover the movement of American riflemen as they reorganized to meet any further hostile action.

The major effort of the enemy did not develop until the morning of 21 April. It found Pfc. May still supporting the rifle company in the face of devastating rifle, machinegun, and mortar fire. While many of the friendly troops about him became casualties, he continued to fire his machinegun until he was severely wounded and his gun rendered useless by the burst of a mortar shell. Refusing to withdraw from the violent action, he blasted fanatical Japanese troops with hand grenades until wounded again, this time mortally. By his intrepidity and the extreme tenacity with which he held firm until death against overwhelming forces, Pfc. May killed at least 16 Japanese, was largely responsible for maintaining the American lines, and inspired his comrades to efforts which later resulted in complete victory and seizure of the mountain stronghold”. #medalofhonor #

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Bonjour à tous,

Petite évocation de la 104th Infantry "Timberwolves" Division.
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Le pantalon a appartenu à Talbert Y. Barbour du Service Company, 395th Field Artillery de la 104th ID. Tec5 Barbour a survécu à la guerre mais il s'est donné la mort en 1967 avec un calibre 22 🙁
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La musette a appartenu au Pvt. A.T. Patrick de la Co F du 415th Infantry Regiment, j'essaye en ce moment même d'en savoir plus sur lui. Le casque fut porté par Ted Fullerton du 413th Infantry Regiment de la 104th ID, il est toujours en vie et vit dans l'Etat de Virginie.
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La 104th Infantry Division a participé à trois campagnes majeures en Europe.
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Northern France - Rhineland - Central Europe

Merci à eux, on ne les oublie pas.

#ww2 #wwii #militaria #ww2military #ww2collector #usarmy #army #104thinfantrydivision #104thinfantrydiv #hurtgenforest #ww2relics #history

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Bonjour à tous,
Peut être pas la cam de tout le monde mais pour moi une pièce avec une histoire, ça n'a vraiment pas de prix ! ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Un ami a sorti ce pantalon dans le secteur de Metz il y a quelques années et il a bien voulu me l'échanger contre un moutarde sans trou ;p ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Le pantalon a appartenu a un certain Lonnie V.Norris, j'ai réussi à identifier son unité aujourd'hui. Il était donc dans la Compagnie B du 44th Armored Infantry Battalion de la 6th Armored Division.
Notre homme a été engagé dans de nombreux combats en Normandie et en Bretagne avant de traverser la France en direction de la Saar.
Pendant la bataille des ardennes, Lonnie V.Norris fut blessé par un éclat d'obus pas très loin de la ville de Bastogne selon un article de journal de 1945. ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
Il ne me reste plus qu'à trouver les Morning Reports de sa compagnie pour connaître la date de sa blessure et quelques rapports pour en savoir plus sur le contexte de la bataille. A creuser donc 🙂 BTW: si vous avez des pièces nominatives et que c'est pas forcément votre truc, ou que c'est votre truc mais que vous voulez me faire plaisir, n'hésitez pas à me contacter 🙂 Cheers.

#ww2 #wwii #ww2military #militaria #usarmy #armored #armoredcore #army #ww2relics #6tharmoreddivision #6tharmored

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