Omaha Beach, est un livre qui a été sélectionné par Günter. G. Gillot Jr, Directeur de la Collection Historique, Editions Foxmaster, Belgique, pour figurer parmi la prestigieuse série de livres publiés à l’occasion du 50e anniversaire de la libération de l’Europe.
Titre original : Omaha Beachhead
- First Printed : Department of the Army, Historical Division
US Army, 1945
- Reprinted : The BatteryPress, Inc. Nashville Tennessee; USA, 1984
@ Michel M. Clemençon, 1993
@ Foxmaster Publishing Belgium 1993-2010
Route de la Gileppe 43 -B-4845 Jalhay, 1993-2010
@ Cartes : Cartographic Section, Historical Division, US Army
@ Cartes & Dessins : Louis J. Linet Jr, 1993-2010
@ Iconographie Günter G. Gillot Jr (détail en fin d’ouvrage)
Layout & Setup : Rainbow Studio, Günter G. Gillot Jr 1993
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Members of the 2nd Infantry Division has been the wearers of the famed Indian Head Patch in five different wars around the planet. This insignia had its origin during World War One as the identifying insignia on the vehicles of the Division Supply Trains. The Commanding Officer of the trains held a contest in March, 1918, to select a distinctive identifying symbol for use upon the vehicles after he had seen the vehicles of adjacent French units decorated in this manner. Through his adjutant he sent out a memorandum authorizing prizes for the best designs submitted, with a first prize of forty francs. The winning insignia, which obtained the final approval of Division Headquarters for use upon supply train vehicles in April, 1918, was the striking red and blue Indian head, super imposed upon a white star. The head covered the reentrant angles of the star and exposed only the points. Maj Gen Omar Bundy, the Division Commander, and his Chief of Staff, Col Preston Brown, later Maj Gen Preston Brown, were riding in a command car one day in April when Gen Bundy’s eye was caught by the insignia emblazoned on a truck. According to a letter from Maj Gen Brown written some time later, Gen Bundy stopped the driver, asked the meaning of the device, and was told by the driver that it enabled him to find his vehicle in the dark. The letter does not bring out that the insignia had been authorized and was probably coming into use on all the vehicles of the trains but at that time and at any rate, the Gen and his Chief of Staff promptly sent their cars to the area to have the insignia painted upon them. In this manner the Indian Head became associated with the 2nd Infantry Division as its identifying insignia some time before it became the standard shoulder patch so proudly worn by men of the Division.
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After the landing in Normandy, followed by some weeks later with the landing in the Provence (Sourth France), the US Army Air Force started to move ahead it’s Airfields to reduce the fly distances between the bombing targets assigned in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany and the home’s Airfields in the UK.
This started with the North part of France on Jun 7 1944 then in the South part when the troops landed on the beaches.
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