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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 5 (1201-1500) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). Should you want to...

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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 4 (0901-1200) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). Should you want to...

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My WW-2 Posters Collection Part 3 (0601-0900) It was a crazy work bit I have spent almost 6 hours to convert this huge PDF file into Images (JPG) to allow anyone who would be interested to get some of the Posters (free of use). Should you want to...

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Lt Ray F. Fletcher MIA 1944 is now back Home Airman Missing In Action From WW II Identified – 1st Lt. Ray F. Fletcher. More than 66 years after his plane went down, 1st Lt. Ray F. Fletcher is coming home and will be laid to rest on American soil...

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Kay Summersby – Ike Was my Boss (10)

Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby

Returning from Cairo to Algiers, I began digging away at the minor mountain of paper accumulated on my desk. Memories of Egypt and Palestine faded completely as I worked late each night to reduce those piles of the General’s fan mail. Like everyone else at headquarters, however, I was still busier on unofficial duties… working overtime on the old rumor that Gen Marshall, not Gen Ike, would head the new American Expeditionary Force building in Britain, and that Ike would go to Washington to become Chief of Staff.
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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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