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Day. Saving Private Ryan depicts the fight that the US 29th Infantry Division along with the Rangers endured on the beach in ...
Sgt. Reece Martin wanted to know more about his uncle, Lawrence Martin, who landed in France on D-Day and died in action 10 days later. So he spent years finding out. Last week, on the 84th ...
Now in its 44th iteration, it is the longest-running bilateral exercise between both countries' armies. Read more at ...
Bob Slaughter was a 19-year-old sergeant in the 29th Infantry Division when he found himself sharing a foxhole with a replacement immediately named ‘Junior’. Branches and bits of wood covered ...
During World War II, Larry, affectionately known as “Buddy,” served bravely in the 4th Infantry, 29th Field Artillery Division. He landed on Utah Beach as a Forward Observer and spent the entire war ...
Ivor was posted to Company H of the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division. That heavy weapons company was a National Guard unit from Martinsville; although Thornton was a draftee he would serve ...
The Battle of Crete will remain forever in military history as the scene of the largest German airborne operation of World ...
The battalion was attached to the British 29th Infantry Brigade ... to save the 'Glosters' but we came too late because we had to go all around the 3rd Infantry Division. There were 133 [Chinese] ...
The gas attack was accompanied by a heavy artillery barrage and, later in the morning, and infantry attack on the ... favourable for the Germans on the 29th, but the gas still inflicted great ...
At the annual meeting of the Fairmount Cemetery Association in May 1939, Bob Haseltine Jr. was appointed as the official caretaker. Nine years later, he was buried in the back row.