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Request for Identication - Crashed Plane 1945 I need the following answers : (Body) German or British ? (Plane) German or British ? I have studied the photos for more than an hour and I am still wondering because the Cockpit looks like an AAF P-38's...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 Another Wartime photos set and like the one before it's a really good one. Joe Summers Pontoon bridge over the Rhine River. Note signs : (left) seems to be a "one way - Red Ball Express",...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 17th A/B 1945 And here is the next set Wartime photos of the 17th Airborne Division. My Dad took a photo of the same concrete bunker from a distance. It had a Russian star on top of it when he took the photo....

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106th Infantry Division (AAR)(1)

Category : 106th-ID, Battle of the Bulge


HEADQUARTERS
106TH INFANTRY DIVISION
APO 443 US ARMY

After Action Report

A : Enclosed are the After Action Reports and Journals of the following units and General Staff Sections of the 106th Division, covering action against the enemy during the month of December 1944 :

- 424th Infantry Regiment Report
- 106th Division Artillery Report
- 81st Engineer (C) Battalion Report
- 331st Medical Battalion Report
- 106th Division Special Troops Report
- G-1 Report
- G-2 Report
- G-3 Report
- G-4 Report

B : The commanding officers and staffs of the 422d Infantry Regiment, 423d Infantry Regiment and the 106th Reconnaissance Troop are missing in action. Their records are presumed to have been destroyed and are not available. The action of these units is covered, but not completely, in the reports and journals of the General Staff Sections. The 14th Cavalry Group was attached to the division from 111900A to 181300A December. Its action, in part, during this period is included in the reports and journals of the general Staff Sections. After 181300A December, it was attached to the 7th Armored Division.
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193th Glider Infantry Sibret 1944-1945

Category : 017th-ABD, 193rd-GIR, Battle of the Bulge

Historical Record of Events for the 193rd Glider Inf Regt, Period : 19 Dec 1944 to 3 Feb 1945, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiement, Subject : Historical Record of Events, Period : 19 Dec 1944 to 3 Feb 1945, to : CG, 17th Airborne Division
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News Request : August 2009

Category : EUCMH Mails Center

The seven years old son of one of our friends of the Margraten Memorial group, Erwin Flohr, is struggling with cancer. This young boy likes to receive greeting cards. Will you please be so kind and ask your friends for help. You know how important a “good mood” is for the health.
His address :
Quinten Flohr
De Kromme Geer 77
5709ME Helmond
Netherlands

This is of course a Worldwide Message and I think you could really take a moment of kindness to provide some joy for a youngster who really need help. His father is one who had adopted and decorates our 17th A/B Fallen Troopers’ Graves at Margraten Holland.
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La Roche en Ardenne

Category : Belgium

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Let me tell you about this lovely little Belgian city called : La Roche. Nestling in a leafy setting on the banks of the Ourthe River, La Roche, the Jewel of the Ardenne, has a fascinating past, a wealth of history, legends, and even a ghost. We know the La Roche area was already inhabited in Neolithic times, 20 centuries before our own era. The ancient Belgæ built an oppidum (hill fort) on this rocky outcrop, where the castle now stands. In 57 BC, Ardenne like Gaul had to submit to the yoke of Rome. A fortlet was built to replace the oppidum. Excavations in La Roche have found coins dating from the time of Emperor Domitian (AD 81-96) and Constantine II (AD 337-340). Taking advantage of the decline of Rome, the Franks, a Germanic people, invaded our country in the 5th century. Under the Frankish occupation in the 8th century, Pepin of Herstal turned the Roman fort into a hunting lodge. The first castle was built in the 9th century and was at its peak between the 12th and 17th centuries. In the following century, faced with attacks from the French, the castle was turned into a fortress. After 1721, a slow decline set in. A proposal to restore it was made in 1744, but never came to anything. Abandoned and neglected, the castle fell into ruin. Excavation started here in 1995, projected to finish by the end of 1999. There is a project afoot with plans already drawn up for a partial reconstruction.

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11th Armored Division (OOB-WW-2)

Category : 011th Armd Div, US Army - World War 2

The US 11th Armored Division (11-AD) was activated on August 15 1942 at Camp Polk, Louisiana and moved on June 24 1943 for the Third Army #3 Louisiana Maneuvers. Transferred then to Camp Barkeley, Texas on September 5 1943 the 11-AD participated, October 29 1943, in the Desert Training Center #4 California Maneuvers and arrived at Camp Cooke, California on February 11 1944, staged at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey September 16 1944 until departed New York, Port of Embarkation on September 29 1944 and arrived in England on October 11 1944.
The 11-AD landed in France on December 17 1944, crossed into Belgium on December 29 1944 and entered Germany on March 5 1945. The 11th Armored Division was inactivated on August 1945.

11-AD Commanders
- Maj Gen Edward H. Brooks : August 1942 – March 1944
- Maj Gen Charles S. Kilburn : March 1944 – March 1945
- Maj Gen Holmes E. Dager : March 1945 – Deactivation

11-AD Casualties
- Killed in Action : 432
- Wounded in Action : 2.394
- Died of Wounds : 90
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2nd Armored Division (OOB-WW-2)

Category : 002nd Armd Div, US Army - World War 2

2-adThe 2nd Armored Division was activated on July 15th 1940 at Fort Benning, Georgia. It participated in the VII Corps Tennessee Maneuvers from June 2nd to June 28th 1941 and moved to Ragley, Louisiana, on August 12th 1941 to participate in the 2nd/3rd Army Louisiana Maneuvers. The Division returned to Fort Benning Georgia on September 29th 1941 and participated (November 2nd 1941), in the 1st Army Carolina Maneuvers then returned to Fort Benning on December 2 1941. Relocated to Monroe, North Carolina on July 10th 1942 for the II Armored Corps Carolina Maneuvers the 2-AD was transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina on August 15 1942; staged at Fort Dix, New Jersey, on November 3rd 1942 until departed tje New York Port of Embarkation December 11th 1942; arrived North Africa December 25th 1942 (less elements which invaded November 8th 1942).
The 2-AD assaulted Sicily on July 10th 1943 and departed November 12th 1943, arrived in England on November 25th 1943 and landed in France on June 7th, 8th and 9th. It crossed to Belgium on September 2nd 1944 and Holland on September 11th 1944, initially entered Germany on September 18th, returned to Holland then to Belgium on December 22nd. The 2nd Armored Division re-entered Germany on February 4th 1945, returned to the New York POE on January 19th 1946 then arrived at Camp Hood, Texas on February 4th 1946. The 2-AD was deactivated later in 1946.
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3rd Armored Division (OOB-WW-2)

Category : 003rd Armd Div, US Army - World War 2

3rd-armored-divisionActivated on Apr 15 1941 at Camp Beauregard the 3rd Armored Division moved to Camp Polk, Louisiana, on June 11 1941 and was transferred to Camp Young, California, on July 26 1942 for the Desert Training Center II Armored Corps California Maneuvers. It moved then to Camp Pickett, Virginia, on November 2 1942 and arrived the Indian Town Gap Mil Reservation, Pennsylvania, on January 21 1943. The 3/AD staged at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, August 26 1943 until departed the New York Port of Embarkation on September 5 1943 and arrived England on September 18 1943. The division landed then in France on June 23 1944, crossed into Belgium on September 1944 and entered Germany September 15 1944. The 3rd Armd Div returned to Belgium on December 20 1944 and re-entered Germany on February 7 1945. The 3/AD was inactivated on November 10 1945.
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17th Airborne Division (OOB-WW-2)

Category : 017th Abn Div, US Army - World War 2

180px-17th_airborne_divisionThe 17th Airborne Division was activated at Camp Mackall, North Carolina on Apr 15 1943 and participated to the Carolina Airborne Troops Carrier Command Maneuvers from Dec 6 to Dec 10 1943. It moved then to the Tennessee Maneuver Area on Feb 6 1944 and took part in the Second Army #5 Maneuvers. The 17th was then transferred to Camp Forrest Tennessee on Mar 24 1944, staged at Camp Myles Standish Mass from Aug 12 1944 until it departed the Boston Port of Embarkation on Aug 20 1944.
The 17th Airborne Division arrived in England 5 days later, Aug 25 1944 and was flown to Reims, France on Dec 24 1944. It crossed then into Belgium, Dec 25 1944 and returned to France after the Battle of the Bulge, on Feb 11 1945. As one major part of Gen Lewis H. Brereton 1st Allied Airborne Army, the Division air assaulted in Wesel Germany on Mar 24 1945 and stayed into Germany till the end of the War. The 17th Golden Talon returned to the Boston POE on Sep 15 1945 and was inactivated at Camp Myles Standish Massachusetts on Sep 16.
The 17th Airborne Division is credited with the Rhineland Campaign, the Ardennes-Alsace Campaign and the Central Europe Campaign.
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422nd/423rd Inf Regts 106th Inf Div Schoenberg Belgium

Category : 106th-ID, 422nd-IR, 423rd-IR, Battle of the Bulge

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The 106th Infantry Division moved from England to France and closed in its concentration area in the vicinity of Limesey, France to St Vith Belgium, completing the move at 101830A Dec 1944. In compliance with an VII Corps order the 106/ID with attachments, relieved the 2/ID in place. CG 106/ID assumed responsibility for the defense of the sector at 111900A Dec 1944. The major units attached to the division at this time were :
- 14th Cavalry Group
- 820th Tank Destroyer Bn
- 634th AAA-AW Bn
Early Dec 16, the enemy launched a coordinated infantry-tank attack with an estimated two infantry divisions and elements of two Panzer divisions preceded by an extensive artillery preparation. Captured documents taken by the division indicated the scope of the German attack. Operation Grief appeared to be part of this large scale counteroffensive. The German attack increased in fury and continued, generally along the whole sector, during the day.
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7th Armored Division (Appendix)

Category : 007th Armored Division

Order of Withdrawall of 7th Armd Div West of Salm River
(The following order, published subsequent to Operations Instructions, Hq 7th Armd Div, 230015A Dec 44 (Annex 3) was the final withdrawal order for the 7th Armored Division and attached units)

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